The life of Alexander Zvyagintsev's heroes is always full of surprises. And this is not because they very often find themselves at the epicenter of very mysterious and dramatic events taking place in Russia and Western Europe, Afghanistan and America, the Middle East and Africa, but due to the fact that they are maximalists in all their manifestations, bringing any it's up to the end. They are smart, strong and beautiful, scary in anger and fierce in love. They can do everything, they just can’t betray one thing... The novels collected in this collection represent different periods of the writer’s work, but they are remarkable in that they are absolutely reliable, because they are based on true destinies and stories that the author draws from his rich life experience.