Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Natasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.

Katya, a young librarian, believes in love. But her ideals are crushed by reality. After a string of disappointing affairs Katya finally finds tenderness and understanding in the arms of her colleague, a journalist called Tanya.

Maxim and his comrades-in-arms are participating in top-secret experiments into the creation of a new man. The employees of the secret Institute are characterized by everything Maxim detests: alcoholism, depravity, weak will, loss...

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of th...