Valeriya Lakhina

Chaque année, 11 volontaires vont tenter leur chance pour gagner au jeu le plus populaire de la planète. Devant des milions de spectateurs avides de nouvelles sensations, ils vont devoir se surpasser devant les épreuves et identifier l’ennemi à abattre. Les règles du jeu sont simples, vivre ou mourir.

Director Mitya escapes from the set of the next television series. In this he is helped by the ghost of Marcello Mastroianni. The decision to escape launches a chain of events with the participation of Mitya's family and friends, which can only be unraveled by the answer to the question of what kind of director he wants to be: great, talented, or just normal.

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.