Alexander Pokrovsky

Lieutenant Captains Pyotr Orlov and Ivan Muravyov have been serving on the Slavyanka submarine for a long time. The next trip to the sea is a planned combat exercise. But no one assumes that a catastrophe will happen this time — the waves from the training explosions will disturb the "sleeping" naval mine since the Second World War.

A story about women living in the same communal apartment, which they themselves nicknamed the "Widow Steamer". Everyone has their own story and their own grief. In 1943, Anfisa Gromova came back here from the frontlines…