Last First Day

Captain Oleg Mangul travels to a remote town to investigate the mysterious disappearance of students, but soon realizes something is deeply wrong. Strange witnesses, eerie visions, and tracks leading into the mountains confront him with a mystery that defies human logic. Trying to escape this trap, Mangul finds himself drawn into a dangerous conflict where reality and deception intertwine, and his own past begins to play a decisive role.

After burying her father in the forest, twelve-year-old Sena realizes she's left alone, perhaps alone on the planet, after a virus has wiped out everyone. Her father left his daughter seven videotapes with important life advice and explanations about the virus. Her journey will be dangerous, as the virus has affected others more terribly than death, turning them into half-humans. Sena encounters them, fights, and tries to survive. Survivors find her, half-dead. Sena carries the antivirus, but it has a strange side effect: Sena periodically loses her memory. That's what her father's tapes are for. Because of her memory loss, Sena can't tell the survivors who she is and that she contains the antivirus. Therefore, humanity is at risk.

An Orthodox priest, a resident of a provincial town, has for many years been unable to find answers to important questions for him, tormenting and interfering with a peaceful life. Once, having unraveled the tangle of certain events, he realizes that the answer lies in a long and difficult unforgiveness.