The TV series "Slovo pacana" is a domestic drama about teenage gang groups during the time of perestroika. The country is changing before our eyes, and the realities of the new era are affecting not only adults but also the unsupervised younger generation. Andrey is a simple high school student who is passionate about music. He doesn't want to be considered a "nerd" among his peers, so he decides to join a gang. He trades music theory lessons for Shatunov's cassettes and his old friends for the school's main troublemaker, Marat.