In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what’s going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created…

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway…

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he…