Adventures of Half a Rubel

Children from working class neighborhoods wearing patchedup clothes have fun in Kyiv streets they slide down showy slopes walk on the brink of a precipice and even conquer the light ice of the Dnieper river They can see how rich people live only through a gap in the fence The boy Fedko who is called a tearaway because of his naughty and disobedient character comes up with some risky entertainment and adults often punish him for this while his friends do respect him