A married couple run a smoke sauna in the isolation of an Estonian forest, a retired Soviet officer collects scrap cars for his private museum, a group of volunteers look after the forgotten battlefields in Russia's West. Latvia's largest locomotive repair and reconditioning works hopes for orders from Western Europe, a Lithuanian Catholic visits the former KGB prison in Vilnius and the secret of..

In Belarus, we travel to the last great primeval forest of Europe, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha. We meet a Polish builder who is passionate about the ancient wooden houses of Podlachia, we visit a Polish-Ukrainian joint venture which manufactures ultra-modern supermarket furniture, we witness the dereliction of ghost villages along the Polish border, and stop off in a Lemberg-inspired pub devoted in..

The Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, an ancient Eastern outpost of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire is now seeking a new identity for itself in this post-Soviet, reformed Ukraine. In contrast, the Maramure' region in Romania is still holding fast to its old traditions. Not far away in Baia Mare, locals are battling the consequences of an environmental catastrophe, and a fascinating detour into the..

In Bulgaria, the team witnesses the everyday life of two minorities: Roma in a slum area of the tourist stronghold of Varna and Pomaks, the Turkish-Muslim population in the south of the country. Finally, we arrive in Greece, where, although out of the headlines, the people are still dealing with the bitter fallout from the state's financial crisis.