In the new collection, the well-known realist writer Roman Senchin opens in an unexpected way: the book includes several surreal stories, whose heroes travel through time, reinvent themselves as historical figures, and fall straight into their own fantasies.
In other respects, everything is familiar: Olya is waiting in prison for her husband Sergei and becomes pregnant by Vitya; the writer Gushchin brings charitable aid to starving Donbas; the talented musician is doomed to start drinking himself into oblivion; and, at Zoya Sergeevna’s, someone steals a Christmas tree from the front garden. Among the heroes and prototypes are Arkady Severny, Mike Naumenko, Zakhar Prilepin.