Natalya Skomorokhova

This story began back in 1986. Perestroika was already underway, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. It was a time when there was no Internet, hypermarkets and even mobile phones, but they drank water from the tap, there were no traffic jams in Moscow, and the keys to the apartment were quietly left under the rug.

The capital's top manager Dima Korolev has to return to his native Zaleshchinsk ten years later to buy out the local recreation center for the construction of a shopping center. But on the way to the business project will be his ex-girlfriend Alyona and part-time director of the Recreation center, as well as annoying relatives who will remind the ambitious guy of his roots.

The Kuznetsov-Sayko family lives in the provincial town of Tetyushev: Olesya (21 years old, an art college student), her mother Elena (45 years old, head of the supply department at a construction company) and grandmother Iraida Stepanovna (65 years old, a performer of romances and folk songs at the local philharmonic).

Four friends travel to the Altai for a rafting trip on a mountain river. Cut off from civilization and face-to-face with nature at its wildest, the heroes are not able to relax but instead are forced to fight for survival. They ask for help from a group of seemingly ‘sportsmen-boaters’ they encounter on the river. But then the heroes realize that they have been taken hostage by criminals. All their weaknesses and faults are laid bare and their true selves are revealed.