Soviet Friendsbook

During the Soviet era a friendsbook, akin to Facebook, was common, and many people owned one. Russian kids called it a Form. Classmates were invited to write in it and share their thoughts on love, what they wanted to be when they grew up, and their favourite foods. It was mostly girls who had these books. Twenty-five years later, Alyona Surzhikova revisits her sixth grade friendsbook and sets out to find her former classmates to learn whether their dreams have come true. She travels to Russia, Germany, and even Cambodia, assembling a thought provoking aggregate portrait of the Russian generation that grew up during the restoration of Estonia's independence. Many of them have left Estonia by now, with half of Surzhikova's classmates living abroad. Why did they do that? What do they think about Estonia? And what would they write into the Form now?