Aleksandr Golubkov
Alla devoted most of her life to her ex-husbands, son and daughter. She works as a tutor while continuing to support her adult children and husbands. Relatives come to her for lunch every day, not at all interested in Alla herself. In one of these family dinners, choking on potatoes, Alla almost dies, but "relatives" do not even notice this.
Ivan, former detective and now ex-con seeks revenge for the death of his partner and for the injustice that put him in jail many years ago. ‘Seek and you shall find’ — out of nowhere a beautiful woman offers him the archenemy on a silver platter. Ivan is temped, how can he resist? This murder-for-hire puts him in a league of assassins that he’s desperately trying to escape. His conscience screams but his circumstances prevail. On the road to his next target, he suffers from a memory loss after a car accident. Saved by a roadside motel owner, a beautiful woman, former killer-for-hire is living in a state of an ignorant bliss. But the trouble finds him. Torn between Scylla and Charybdis, the protagonist now has to face the most dangerous target while having to save his family and his soul from being completely destroyed.
Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natasha returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.
Four friends travel to the Altai for a rafting trip on a mountain river. Cut off from civilization and face-to-face with nature at its wildest, the heroes are not able to relax but instead are forced to fight for survival. They ask for help from a group of seemingly ‘sportsmen-boaters’ they encounter on the river. But then the heroes realize that they have been taken hostage by criminals. All their weaknesses and faults are laid bare and their true selves are revealed.
Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage proposal from a rich admirer. The provincial boy comes back being unable to let her go. Things get messy when their passion oversteps all the limits. Soon contemporary Romeo and Juliet get confused about what is really important turning into consuming 'Locust': overwhelming love they have leads them to commit brutal murders.
1990s. Gangster Kiev. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "Alien", the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, whose testimony could damage some important people.
