Zhenya + cane u003d Tin. Only Tin minus the hated cane - this will not be the old Zhenya. The plaster was removed, I was allowed to go to school, the scars are healing, but nothing will be the same again. She is now locked in this body, which is always seasick, in pain, and cold, and wants to fight. Locked, like that guy in a robot suit with a viewing window in his chest. Zhenya’s window, like a camera on a phone, snatches frames from reality: a white butterfly, blue sneakers, green ozobots on red trees. A three-liter jar of meat. Volume of Shakespeare. A mechanical cockroach. The cockroach came running from the robotics club. And why was Zhenya drawn there? The manager is unpleasant - he talks to her as if he understands better than Zhenya what is going on in her head. And in the circle there are kids and kids from school led by his wife’s ex—it’s such a joy to meet him. Although anything is better than listening to her parents discuss her behind her back, trolling her brother, or catching the glances of her classmates, pitying and contemptuous. Maybe here we can reassemble ourselves? Serafima Orlova shines a hard light on her heroine, shows her with all her shortcomings and problems during an emotionally difficult period - and at the same time poetizes the everyday life of teenage life. Following Zhenya-Tin through the plot, as if along a trajectory for a robot drawn on the floor, you begin to believe: the tin has a real, living heart beating inside it. The story “Tin Head”, which was shortlisted for the Kniguru award and nominated for the. V. P. Krapivin and “Lyceum” are close in visual aesthetics to the films of Darren Aronofsky and Sam Mendes, and exceptional psychological accuracy makes it similar to the books “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green and “Everything in the World” by Nicola Yun.