故事发生在普金统治下的俄罗斯。二十来岁的奥莉娅一直在为LGBT人士的平等权利奋斗着，她组织展览和出柜活动，在街上游行，总是站在示威者队伍的第一排，直面警察和反对者。影片以家庭影片的形式拍就，奥莉娅会使用摄像机，所以观众能深入她的公寓，听她和女友、友人们闲聊，除开这些镜头之外，还有一名摄像师从另外的角度取材，观众因此还能看到街上发生的事：殴斗不仅会发生在国家杜马门前，女人还会在地铁扶手电梯上被反同志群体殴打。奥莉娅向我们展示了在当今俄罗斯捍卫自己性向的代价。

In Putin’s Russia, we follow enthusiastic twentysomething Olya in her unstinting struggle for equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people. She organizes exhibitions and coming-out events and demonstrates actively on the streets, often right on the front line between demonstrators, riot police and opponents. The film’s home-video style underlines the personal nature of this highly politicized issue. Olya learns to use the camera herself so she can film in the intimacy of her apartment – while her girlfriend is fitting a wall socket or they are talking with friends about having children. This private footage is interspersed with material shot by an external cameraman – often rough material from the street, just when something is happening: beatings not only during the demonstrations in front of the Duma, but also on the escalator in the metro, where women are attacked by members of an anti-gay group. By letting the camera into her life, Olya shows us what the price of standing up for your sexuality is in today's Russia.