Mikhail Kasapov

Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.

A simple guy from Podolsk ends up in the Moscow Police Department and morally prepares for all sorts of humiliations. But the representatives of the law suddenly turn out to be exacting intellectuals…

In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.

第1次世界大戦中の1917年、ロシアで二月革命が勃発。帝政ロシアに代わる臨時政府が樹立されて、国政は混乱を極め、さらには、ドイツ軍の猛攻の前に、ロシア軍は壊滅的な状況へと追い込まれていた。そんな苦境のさなか、貴族や学生、労働者など、さまざまな階級・身分の女性たちが、自ら志願して婦人部隊を結成。隊長マリアの猛特訓の下、一丸となった彼女たちは戦場へと送られ、ドイツ軍を相手に決死の戦いを繰り広げる。