 Khleb - imya sushchestvitelnoe (aka... Bread is the proper noun) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail Alekseev. It is an epic about life of three generations in central Russia around the Volga river in the province of Saratov. The story begins in 1902, when Russian peasants are allowed to own their farmlands. They suffer from losses during dramatic events of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. The major catastrophe happens during the Stalin s rule. The communist regime exterminates all the best farmers and confiscates all the food supplies. That causes the deadly famine all over the central Russia during the 1920 s and 1930 s. The following popular resistance is brutally suppressed in the "Great Terror" of 1934-1938.