Alexander Ezhber

The story of a young lad and his struggle for survival while living in an orphanage being bullied constantly by some of the older boys.

Mikhail Petrovich Zorin is the last surviving signalman of the first composition of the legendary 330th Infantry Regiment (86th Infantry Division), who heroically fought on the Nevsky Piglet during the defense of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. In April 1942, in the course of a powerful onslaught of the German group, almost all the soldiers who were at that time in the regiment's location were killed, and the wounded were taken prisoner. Mikhail Zorin survived thanks to a unique combination of circumstances.

For modern teenagers, the Great Patriotic War is a very long‑ago history that they know only from computer games. That’s how Yegor and Ilya felt too. By a twist of fate, the boys come across the story of the heroic feat of Lieutenant Moroz’s tank crew in the huge tank battle of 1941, which took place in Belarus, near the town of Senno. This encounter reveals the real war to them, makes them look at their computer game hobby in a different way — more maturely and meaningfully — and makes them rethink their family, with which this story turns out to be personally connected...