Mikhail Motuz

Every escape starts somewhere. Sasha's starts with a rubbish bin. Fleeing her husband's abuse, Sasha sets off for the very edge of the country — to Teriberka. The long road teaches her absurd but necessary lessons: how to 'rescue' the non-suicidal, how to coax stubborn cars, how to flee 'antelope hunters', and above all — how to find and accept help in the most unexpected places. But the longed-for sea reminds her: to build a new life, she must reclaim what matters most.

Literature teacher Tatyana Ivaschenko finds a strange story describing a murder in her late father's papers. The story is clearly amateurish, but it reminds Tatyana of a scene from Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata." Tatyana turns to her father's colleagues, who worked for the Investigative Committee, of all places.