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Shot in the late spring/early summer of 2010, the film explores the reasons why Kyrgyzstan, a small, land-locked country in Central Asia, made international headlines repeatedly during 2010. Occupying a pivotal role in Great Power rivalries and in the international drug trade, Kyrgyzstan has felt the effects of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union more dramatically than any other post-Soviet state. Just five years ago, the Kyrgyz “Tulip Revolution” was hailed as a peaceful readjustment of a post-Soviet country, once acknowledged as one of the only “democratic” regimes of Central Asia in the 1990s. But the Tulip Revolution was soon betrayed, and under Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his “family regime,” Kyrgyzstan descended into authoritarianism.