Writing
March 1944. At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory is overshadowed by a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scant testimony of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time they leave portraits of the dead at the crime scene. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Death's Head", and its leader was called an Artist.
1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union. The time when freedom came to the country, and everyone used it as best they could. In the center of the capital, the British open an elite casino, where politicians and just influential people gather every evening. Champagne and money flow freely, while the common people sell the latter to feed themselves.
Single mother Maria lives with her son and daughter in a science city, which is being prepared for liquidation. She believes that her physicist husband, who disappeared six years ago during a scientific experiment, is somewhere nearby — just in another dimension. A former colleague of her husband arrives in the city in search of the missing person's records, and Maria has a boyfriend-trucker Stas, ready to take her away with her children and start a new life together. Faced with a choice, a woman can not decide to leave her invisible husband.
Julia's son dies during a hike in the mountains. However, after the funeral, she receives a mysterious video in the mail in which she sees her son alive. Everything indicates that he is being held somewhere on Sakhalin, in the area of the Severnaya-2 drilling station. Julia goes to Sakhalin in search of her son. Her ex-husband Andrey flies there after her. Parents will have to search for their son for a long time in a dying snow-covered village, in a harsh region where strangers are not welcome.
A summer youth camp by the sea. Tonya, a quiet, reserved, and gullible girl, becomes neighbors with Lyudka, who is vibrant, assertive, and calculating. They both fall in love with the same boy. Suddenly, it turns out that Tonya possesses supernatural abilities she cannot control.
A woman confronts increasingly eccentric officials to process her documents. Little by little, she is consumed by the nonsensical bureaucratic system.
