Vladimir Serikov

The story of a lonely city surveillance worker who watches a street dog through cameras — a dog he has grown attached to but has never met in person.

Successful businessman Sergey Gorbatov has long since lost his former drive, having grown accustomed to a measured, predictable pace of life. His world is upended, however, when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Liza, moves to join him in Krasnoyarsk. Liza views the relocation as a form of exile and sees her father as an indifferent egoist. In an effort to regain her respect, Gorbatov makes an unexpected decision: he sets out to turn a group of children from an orphanage into a proper football team. This endeavor leads both him and the teenagers through a series of challenges, conflicts, and triumphs—ultimately forcing each of them to reconsider their outlook on the world and on themselves.

Our days. Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Zhenya comes from the "northern capital" to a border village in the Belgorod region to see her brother, a volunteer, before he leaves for the invasion of Ukraine. There she meets a local informal leader, call sign "Timur", and his team, also teenage “volunteers“, who not only help Zhenya see her brother, a tanker, while helping the Russian "security forces" eliminate Ukrainian civilians, but also completely change her outlook on life. And as it happens, the personal relationship between Zhenya and "Timur" goes beyond "just friendship".