Егор Губарев

Un jour d'hiver, Sergueï Sobolev, capitaine de la police locale, est en route vers l'hôpital où sa femme s'apprête à accoucher. Surexcité, il renverse un enfant qui meurt à la suite de l'accident. Le capitaine a deux options : aller en prison ou cacher le crime. Sobolev décide alors d'appeler un collègue pour l'aider...

After discovering a dark window which appears on the wall every midnight two boys decide to investigate the mystery of a dark room behind the window.

Fifteen-year-old Julia runs away from home and embarks on an amazing journey, during which she meets a variety of bright personalities: a young photographer, an aspiring pickpocket and a talented girl named Chaika. All these meetings give the heroine food for thought, help her sort herself out and understand what is important in life.

This story began back in 1986. Perestroika was already underway, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. It was a time when there was no Internet, hypermarkets and even mobile phones, but they drank water from the tap, there were no traffic jams in Moscow, and the keys to the apartment were quietly left under the rug.

The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the one hand - an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mother and a father who is a docent, on the other - the dangerous world of an Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And there's also the girl Zhenya, whose encounter triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the life of Alex. Running away from hooligans, Alex steals a car of local criminal authority, and in an instant everything changes. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear - life will never be the same again. Not for Alex himself, nor for the whole of Russia.