The stories included in Dmitry Bykov’s new collection “Pain/Minority” create a fantastic and distorted world. Here one reality breaks through another: real historical figures are side by side with fictional characters; the future is unbearable and they are trying to change it by traveling to the past - but it is replayed and unrecognizable in the new production. This is what the world looks like after February 24th. But “heaven is the possibility of suggesting that there is another life.” It has yet to be found, and each story of “The Majority” is not only an expression of despair, but also a step towards finding this reality.