From an early age, Zhenya was told that she should be good: learn to be a translator, get married, have children. Now she is under thirty, no husband, no children - only problems with alcohol and an irresistible craving for a cousin.

Dasha, like her mother, does not know how to choose men. She is looking for father-like, drinking kitchen boxers, and marries one of them.

Ilya is afraid of not being a real man. You need to earn better, love your family more, but the meaning has disappeared and life has turned into Groundhog Day. The new novel by Vera Bogdanova "The Season of Poisoned Fruits" is about the generation of modern thirty-year-olds who grew up in the chaos of the nineties and the terrorist attacks of the zero. The heroes of the novel are afraid to live their lives, and in general - is it possible to find happiness when the world around is exploding and burning?