Virgin Soil

Young Russia goes to the people and finds the people are not a speech. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil is idealism in the provinces: love, conspiracy, the gap between the pamphlet and the hut. A generation trying to plough a future, and cutting itself. Nezhdanov and the countryside plot: love, a printing press, a class that will not be a chorus. Turgenev’s last long look at revolution as a feeling that dies in the weather. A printing-press that cannot plough, and a love that cannot wait for the future.