Sofya Tiunova

Former prisoners captured plane. But on the way there was a failure, and to alleviate the weight of the aircraft, they throw overboard box with three hostages. The hostages managed to land safely. Now they have to stick together. And around a foreign land with a strange unknown language.

A young driver fascinated by cars suddenly meets a young girl who owns a Ford truck.

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.

A simple guy, Styopa, without suspecting it, brought with his car to a small town a gang of gangsters looking for a unique diamond.

Demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enrolls in a university. His father is arrested based on a slanderous denunciation. The hero himself, as the son of an “enemy of the people,” is expelled from the party and the university...