Victor Chebotaryov

A demon, sick of sin's monotony, asks a priest for instructions on how to become good. Based on the motives of L. Andreev's story The Rules of Kindness.

Based on real events that took place during the construction of the Nurek hydroelectric power station, where a new form of socialist competition, “Workers' Relay Race,” was born.

In the territorial waters of the USSR, the team of a border ship recorded a deviation from the agreed course of a foreign vessel. During the inspection of the incident, it turns out that the offending vessel threw an object overboard. The border guards, with the help of a journalist assigned to them, establish that this is a radio beacon belonging to one of the Western intelligence services. The commander of the border ship Chaika, realistically assessing the threat that such a transmitting device poses to the country's defense, decides to prevent its removal, for which he simulates a breakdown of the ship...