‘All the money went and there was nothing to buy food with. So Mothers and Fathers tried to find things they could get rid of, things that ate, things that drank or things that needed to be kept warm. The dogs went first.’ In a recession-ravaged city, what do you do when the money runs out? Based on the true story of Ivan Mishukov, Ivan and the Dogs is a story of survival on the streets of Moscow in the 1990s through the eyes of a child.