The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted when his land is appropriated by a mysterious group to exploit its oil resources.
The Outskirts, also known by the transliterated Russian title Okraina, is a 1998 Russian film starring Yuri Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Alexey Pushkin and Alexey Vanin. Loosely based on Boris Barnet's 1933 film Outskirts, it was directed and written by Pyotr Lutsik.