During Stalin's reign, twelve year-old Pavlik Morozov became a legendary hero for betraying his father to the secret police as an "enemy of the state," a act which became a symbol of Stalin's monolithic state-machine. Streets, parks and schools were named after this "little patriot." Pavlik's heroic reputation has come in for its share of revisionist analysis since Perestroika. We return to the remote village where he was born to meet with those who recall the myth and can expose the wretched reality.