“Like a submarine in the steppes” is the Russian equivalent of “pigs might fly”. Mr Pilipenko has achieved the impossible. It has taken him 30 years to construct a working submarine out of scrap metal in the little village of Jevgenivka in the Ukrainian steppes. He found the construction plan for his childhood dream in a magazine for underwater sports in 1970 and paid for the parts by doing repairs or bartering with cucumbers from his garden. This quirky cross between a VW Beetle and a flying saucer actually works – at least in the village pond. But Pilipenko wants to go one step further – the Black Sea. After an adventurous 400-kilometre journey across the steppes and the mountains with an old grain transporter, Pilipenko and his submarine face the ultimate challenge. The film shows the power of a dream in the face of almost insurmountable adversity. Pilipenko, defying the mockery of his neighbours and the suspicions of the KGB, is like a modern-day Don Quixote.