Alexander Kupeer is a Moscow prose writer and publicist. Author of tabloid novels "My Angel", "The Flute of the Ratcatcher" and others. He was awarded the Moscow International Book Fair exhibition prize "For the modern use of the Russian language in the novel 'Ёкарный бабай'." His new film novel "Nadezhda" is an amazing weave of three plotlines and three love stories. The middle-aged professor of words, Vyazov, loses his memory and is found in the small village of Pryamukhino in Tver Region, where, once upon a time, the famous anarchist Bakunin lived… A kaleidoscope of vivid images and historical scenes—modernity and the past, the Russian countryside and the Italian coast. And most of all: a piercing, real love. Based on the film novel, together with Zoya Kudrey, he created the screenplay for its on-screen adaptation of "Nadezhda".