“I remember this strange silence that fell in the house. It's like my ears are blocked. And when it was put aside, there were no more sounds. Then it went away. A month or two later, when a completely different life began…”

Lena Brusnikina’s other life is an orphanage, which has its own laws: strict, honest and unfair at the same time. Children know how to get around them, but cannot cross the chasm that separates them from the “normal” world, about which they know so little. They are the same as those at home, only the world around them is different. They do not learn to love, trust, respect, they learn to survive. All their senses are extremely heightened, and any event - from a missing thing to a teacher's sympathy - in this universe causes a real explosion with unpredictable consequences. And if a fourteen-year-old girl is smart and prettier before our eyes, she suddenly has to solve very adult issues...