The Goddess of Prime Time

Afghanistan, a wild country, a strange war… On that day, Russian TV correspondents Olga Shelestova and Nikita Belyaev went out to film the front-line positions. On the way back, Olga got into the car with the other journalist colleagues to make it to the broadcast—and disappeared without a trace together with them. The hotel room was ransacked—so it wasn’t a random abduction, was it?.. Belyaev returned to Moscow alone. Colleagues looked at him suspiciously: how did he survive? His boss and Olga’s husband, the director of the channel’s information programs, has no choice but to trust Belyaev. It became known that the elusive Taliban leader Akbar had recently been secretly recorded on video. The information came from Paris, and the day before the abduction, Olga received a package from there, which among the food contained a cassette. Then she vanished. Bakhroshin flies to Kabul to search for his wife, and Belyaev meets a new news anchor—a beautiful woman named Alina Khrabrova. He rushes to help her: they are threatening to kill her if she doesn’t leave the channel…