Lyudmila Stepchenkova

Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement.

1952 Olympic Games. A football match between the USSR national team and the SFRY attracts the close attention of the political leaders of these countries who had quarreled by that time... As soon as the football team lost this match, the CSKA team, the “team of lieutenants”, which was popular in the post-war years, began to have troubles.

Patients of the resuscitator Mikhailov are people who tried to commit suicide. Veronika, a young journalist and sociologist, often visits the hospital where the hero works. Natasha, Mikhailov's wife, guesses that her husband is in love with another woman. She is jealous and increasingly feels her loneliness.