Братья по обмену

The main character is an average person with average parameters: a wife, two children, a modest job, a modest salary. There is nothing unusual about Sergei Nedelin, except for one strange hobby: he likes to wander through the evening streets, look into windows and storefronts. Life is raging everywhere, and only his existence seems poor and squalid to him.

The protagonist, an army doctor, veteran of the Special Military Operation, and the sole survivor after his unit's frontline engagement, travels to a see the wife of his fallen comrade in a remote village on the Caspian Sea and pay his respects to the family. Suffering from severe PTSD after an explosion, he is undergoing a hard recovery, uncertain of his future. Tortured by pain and loss, he finds solace in the widow of the heroic major, who has also lost her sense of purpose. An unexpected love blossoms between them, which brings him back to life. Now, he is ready to go back to the conflict zone to fulfill his duty to the country.

Igor is a once successful millionaire, now bankrupt and a man on the brink. Having reached the roof of a high-rise building, he is preparing to put an end to his life. But his plans are disrupted by the appearance of a strange guy who decided that dying beautifully is also a kind of art. Their acquaintance turns into an absurd duel of despair... And what will happen next - a jump into the abyss or a decision to start a new life, remains a mystery until the very end.

At a stop on demand (that is, where the bus stops, only if you really ask), on the outskirts of an ordinary Russian city, a humble man named Smirnov stands in the rain. I decided to go to my mother after a slight quarrel with my wife Natasha.

It became very bad in Anisovka: people drink, are lazy, and look to the future with sadness: the village is threatened, if not demolition, then blockade because of the bridge under construction. The bosses decide to use an unconventional means: to call a psychic - and let him cure everyone of drunkenness, pessimism and lack of work enthusiasm.

Our time. A provincial town. Here, as everywhere, there are their intrigues, their heroes, their villains. And people live, of course, not only with work and household chores. People live with worries, disappointments, unexpected meetings. Once upon a time, three friends Pestrov, Suvorov and Chagin studied at the same institute, walked together, loved together. Time has passed, and youthful hobbies have grown into something more. Three friends became rivals in love. Rivals in life. Their destinies are connected by a single maze, through which they all wander, against the walls and corners of which they are thrown by love, hate, friendship.