Who are we if you tear us out of our usual environment? Can we remake ourselves if our world is destroyed? “Before you is a novel-attempt to expose sharp, painful, tragic moments in human life. The collision of destinies in the vast sea of society—this is the mega-image of the unusual work. The mutual intertwining of these destinies, and the whole spectrum of emotions connected with them: from fear to tenderness, from forgiveness to open hostility. The strange blend of objectivity filled with professional details and the piercingly personal view of the author creates the effect of living presence, and at the same time an absurdist photograph: the more realistic and cold the image is, the more fantastic and frightening it seems—like in hyperrealism” (Elena Kryukova).