In 1987, Susie Serra had the opportunity to spend a week in Russia, then the Soviet Union, during "glasnost," the new policy of "openness" instigated by Mikhail Gorbachev. Follow her as she bonds with the country of her grandmother Anna's birth, through Moscow and on to Peter the Great's "Venice of the North," then called Leningrad. Follow her as she falls in love with a country, a culture, a heartland, all "In a Week's Lifetime."