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A group of young people wants to settle in an abandoned village and revive it

A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of Nikolay, whose ancestors on his mother's side are Georgian, walks into the department which is busy with the investigation of a murder committed by a mysterious blind killer. His intuition leads him to a group of people whose destiny was broken by the Chechen War. This peaceful town finds its sinister inside, and Nikolay's noble impulses runs into the cruel and corrupt reality.

Qisho, a carefree young musician known for helping everyone, loses a rigged coin toss and falls into debt of over a million cigarettes, driving him to desperate measures that ultimately lead to his friend’s death.

Rene Dadiani, a big city dweller, teaches video art in a film school, while at the same time working for a propane delivery office. He claims real men are men of many hats. In film school, he's one of the avid preachers of self-initiated absurd theory. He assumes that one can enhance the power of imagination by way of altering consciousness that, on its turn, can give way to new reality. Rene often observes life via his Handycam. Sometimes those he captures are not only the 'real' people, but imaginary personalities, too.

Philip Ronin is a former employee of the prosecutor's office, and now the owner of a small yacht repair and maintenance company. One day, by the will of fate, Philip finds himself in the epicenter of urban criminal events.

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