Milan Malyshkin-Malinovsky

Alexey Sokolov commande une équipe de pompiers rattachés au service de protection aérienne des forêts. C'est un homme dur qui a l'habitude de tout contrôler autour de lui, y compris sa fille Katya. Katya sort avec Roman, un pompier débutant de Moscou. L’appréciant peu, Alexey l’emmène néanmoins avec son équipe éteindre un terrible incendie de forêt. Alors que les flammes engloutissent tout sur leur passage, ils vont se retrouver coincés pour sauver les habitants d’un village.

In the regional centre Kuznetsky the mayor has been killed in his office. The murderer is Dimur Kavsadze, in charge of commercial construction work for the city administration. A squall of public concern beleaguers the city. Alexander Danilin is an undercover curator, an intermediary between the business and the authorities; he tries to eliminate trouble and return life to normal. The cause of the tragedy was a construction project, which wrapped itself around Kuznetsky like a tumour, and which was a source of profit for the authorities and the local builders. The construction “devours” free land, the souls of people and even what seems beyond the law of profit: the family. Neither the death of people, nor common sense can stop the construction…