Mikhail Demurov

Soviet "Manchurian candidate"

Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...

The gold treasure found during archaeological excavations on the Tsarsky Kurgans in Kazakhstan was stolen. Fearing that unique things will be melted into ingots, the museum curator Georgy Zimin himself begins an investigation, but as a result of a non-professional investigation loses his beloved woman.

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona decides to save the youngest son at all costs and shelters him from being drafted into the army in the attic of the house until the end of the war. But it turns out that saving her son, she condemns him to spiritual death, and herself to torment of conscience. A private story about the mother of a deserter grows to epic proportions...