Иван Янковский

In the mid-90s, when the death penalty was still allowed, a new employee appeared in the special purpose prison. Like his colleagues, Kostya will have to carry out death sentences. But he has a special view of justice. Having met the father of one of the victims, Kostya understands that it is those close to him who have the right to carry out the punishment. In addition, you can make good money from this. For example, they never dreamed of the kind of money that a mother offered for the murder of her daughter's rapist.

Summer, St. Petersburg of the XXI century. Student Rodion Raskolnikov is exhausted by lack of money, unemployment and thoughts about the meaninglessness of his existence. But the idea is growing in his mind that some people "have the right" to do the most vile acts if they make great discoveries and move the world forward. To test the theory on himself, he kills an old woman microcreditor. Investigator Porfiry Petrovich is on the trail of Raskolnikov, who wants to extract a sincere confession from him.

Perestroika has already stepped from the Kremlin stands onto the streets of cities and towns. The Soviet Union is dying before our eyes, and along with the premonition of change, freedom of speech, music and prices, freedom from conscience appears, bordering on lawlessness. While parents fight for survival, children abandoned by everyone flock into street flocks and "fight for the asphalt." They literally fight to control everything that stands on their land or moves on it. In the midst of general poverty, there are clear rules of life, support and a boy's word, which is stronger than an oath. But friendship and concepts of justice are increasingly mixed with violence and crime.

1986. Teenagers are killed one by one in the area of the government dachas on Rublevskoye Shosse. Intelligent investigator Valery Kozyrev, his audacious partner from Rostov Evgeny Bokov and very young investigator Natalia Dobrovolskaya begin the investigation, not even knowing how much it will change the fate of each of them. The only witness capable of identifying the maniac - schoolboy Igor, whose parents are not at all happy about his son's contact with the police.

Five young people go for a trip to a mysterious monastery in Topi village in hopes for help to find answers for their questions. Each has his own personal tragedy: failed love story, guilt for the death of a close person, terminal illness... Yet what they face in Topi is not a healing miracle but an encounter with their fears and there is almost no escape from half dead, half forgotten village.