Man from the Underworld: Rats of the Hexagon
15 hrs. 51 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Denis Shabalov
Author
Dmitry Manasypov
Narrator
Khazanovich Dmitriy (Dim Dimych)
Narrator
Khazanovich Dmitriy (Dim Dimych)
Living in the Hexagon isn’t easy. Living in the Hexagon—you wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy. And it isn’t really life at all: half-starved existence in filth and crap.
A day off—one day in a decade. Only one day when you’re allowed a bit more than on the working days. The rest of the time is endless hard labor under constant supervision from steel machines and overseers-kapo. Sleep—in stuffy, damp chambers for a hundred people. Food—slop. Life—shit. But people with numbers on their gray robots don’t know anything else.
Can a person keep something human inside in such conditions—or will his fate be to become a rat? Will loyalty, honor, conscience, goodness, and respect for people still remain—or has all of it already rotted inside him a long time ago? Can he band together to fight—or will the rat instincts win out? Is he capable of self-sacrifice? Capable of believing? Capable of breaking free from the dark concrete walls of the Hexagon when the one who knows how will come?..
A day off—one day in a decade. Only one day when you’re allowed a bit more than on the working days. The rest of the time is endless hard labor under constant supervision from steel machines and overseers-kapo. Sleep—in stuffy, damp chambers for a hundred people. Food—slop. Life—shit. But people with numbers on their gray robots don’t know anything else.
Can a person keep something human inside in such conditions—or will his fate be to become a rat? Will loyalty, honor, conscience, goodness, and respect for people still remain—or has all of it already rotted inside him a long time ago? Can he band together to fight—or will the rat instincts win out? Is he capable of self-sacrifice? Capable of believing? Capable of breaking free from the dark concrete walls of the Hexagon when the one who knows how will come?..
