Only in the crazy time of wars and revolutions could such different families unite. And a boy was born who, from the first years of his life, felt within himself two incompatible halves. He began to reason before he learned to speak correctly, and was able to describe his childhood experiences only at the end of his life - such is the plot of “Hybrid.” The action takes place in the middle of the last century. Tragic pictures unfold before the boy’s eyes, but they appear to the little man not as History, but as the ordinary life of his family and friends, touching and funny. Events are reproduced from memory, literally in the language of the heroes of that time. Of course, the book is confessional, although it is by no means a memoir, and will be of interest to readers of different generations as a cheerful and slightly sad true fairy tale, where philosophical pages are interspersed with polemical notes, and mystical themes with everyday anecdotes. The author is a famous documentary filmmaker. This is probably why time is presented in such tangible details, with such amazing accuracy, as if they were copied from photographs or taken from diaries. The author and the publishing house thank the Telefilm film company and its general director Yuri Vasilievich Matsyuk for their assistance in publishing the book