Alexey Slavkin

The story of one day - August 12, 2012. The Earl's Court Exhibition Center in London is filled with fans. Millions of viewers around the world are waiting for the start of the broadcast of the final volleyball game among men's teams, which will determine the winner of the XXX Olympic Games. The Russian team that has never won gold. And the Brazilian national team, caressed by contracts, victories and loyal fans. Many people think that the outcome of the game is predetermined. But few people yet know what place this final occupies in the life of each of the Russian athletes.

The story of "The Manfred", a Soviet rock band, and its leader Roman Blestyachev, who pioneered «glam rock and queerness» in the USSR. One day, the group decided to sacrifice success and protest against the state and war...

The heroine's nightly doomscrolling is interrupted by a stupid chain letter posted by a stranger in her feed. “If you want to save yourself, ask your friends to repost it 5 times.” - tells the message posted from a non-existent profile. The message cannot be deleted, and the timer calmly counts down 10 minutes until the unknown.

There was a scandal in a quiet school near Moscow. During an online lesson about Brodsky's poetry, Dick Pic began to flash on the screens of the students. Conservative headmistress Laima Olegovna, shocked by what happened, is trying to find out the name of the bully who showed an indecent photo. But this is not all the trouble: the headmistress's personal life was destroyed after she found the nudes of an unknown woman in her husband's phone. And then there's the illegal sale of fast food on school grounds, and the sudden arrival of the city administration. The reputation of Lima and the educational institution is under threat, and the search for the author of deepika risks turning into a failure.

Kira Georgievna is a famous sculptor. She has a loving husband, friends, and fans. She seems quite happy. But one day the past breaks into Kira's well-adjusted life: Vadim, her first husband, appears. In '37, he was repressed and spent 20 years in camps.

On his last night, Rat decides to go to his friend’s closed bar to try, glass after glass, to find meaning with his last strength before dawn.