Anton Utkin

Near future. A military nurse is taking her wounded husband to safety. But a call from orbital command forces her to make some very tough choices...

Since ancient times, there has been an unusual fishery on the Ural River. Every year in August, the inhabitants of coastal villages turn into a kind of entomologists, only they catch butterflies not with nets, but with the help of powerful searchlights, using the phenomenon of phototropism. Observation of this phenomenon evokes associations with the life and purpose of a person.