Stories told with a fair amount of humor, about the side of life that most people try not to think about.
"The Stressed Rus" is 40 stories about people united by their prison experience. Dmitrievich built a cottage settlement, but soon it turned out that nearby a metro station would be opened. As a result, the land shot up in price and became a tasty piece for serious people with connections. That’s how a father of three got five years.
From the children’s home, Vovka regularly goes to the prison to visit his mother, who is in jail for killing his grandmother.
They say that recently a little brother was born to him.
Nadezhda found love behind the barbed wire, got married, and now is waiting for her new husband to be released.
Petrukha—who has a speaking nickname: "Seven-Walk-Three-Escapes"—gave up a criminal life and became a human-rights advocate.
But when his girlfriend was jailed in pretrial detention, Petrukha decided to arrange her escape. Uncle Pasha, a criminal authority of the old school, does not want to deal or make compromises and defends his ideas in the penal colony.
Kostik abandons his wife, and she, in revenge, files a report with the police about pedophilia.