Kirill Nazarov

Another seven good-ending stories for a whole family.

The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.

Anton Pavlov recently turned 18 years old. He has entered adulthood, and he already has a favorite thing — he writes his own music and raps. But his life is overshadowed by a rare genetic disease — myodystrophy. This is a progressive weakening of the muscles, leading to a fatal outcome. Anton is in vital need of an expensive and rare medicine, but due to bureaucratic obstacles, he has lost access to it.