The unrecognized standard-bearer of Victory endures ridicule, wasting years in a sour-smelling eatery... A Wehrmacht soldier tries to survive in Soviet captivity, tormented by the question: “Why does God help the Russians?”... A beautiful Russian sniper signs up for the front as a volunteer, turning under the scalpel of a surgeon who loves her into a monster... A crazy dancer defeats a gang of thugs, as usual, not without the help of higher powers... A sailor “waltzes” with a galvanic shock mine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, finding himself there after a shipwreck... What connects such different characters? Getting acquainted with the heroes of the new collection of stories and short stories, you understand: invisible threads unite each of the living (and those who have lived, and those who will live) on this planet. And from each there is a thread reaching to Heaven. And the ocean... it is only called quiet.