Being young in Yoshkar-Ola is not easy. Especially if you are indifferent to hookah, read Thomas Wolfe in the original, are friends with a homeless artist and sleep in your car. Mark graduated from university, quarreled with his father and left home. Now he works as a barista and translates porn films, and at night he fantasizes about his ex. Mark is ashamed of his Mari eye shape. Wherever and whoever he is with, he feels like a stranger. While exploring his roots, Mark learns the truth about the crimes of the Soviet era. They must not happen again. The new summer will bring forest fires - twenty-year-olds will have to put them out.