"Youth 90" is a documentary about life in the Russian provinces at the end of the 20th century, compiled from home videos and television archives. The main characters are ordinary people, the kind about whom films are rarely made. In their faces, we can recognize our relatives, people passing by on the street, or our neighbors. Among them are a young married man, oblivious to what is happening around him, and a conscript who casually marched off to the army, only to end up at war and disappear. Two parts of one reality: peace and war.

Cave paintings and our photo albums have the same source: death. But when does a memory become an image? How does memory work and what is more real: fact or our perception?

Two people in love are forced to move to different cities. As a farewell gift, he gives her a camera containing recordings of the time they spent together. However, due to a mistake, all the files are dated January 1, 2006.