The protagonist of the novel “The Patriot,” Sergey Znaev, is an eccentric businessman who, in the past, was a successful “new” banker and is now bankrupt. His reality today consists of debts, quarrels with old friends, memories… Then a son is suddenly discovered—one he hadn’t even known about. Sergey consoles himself with the thought that one day he will go to war, where “everything is serious,” but instead he ends up on the other side of the world…