Мария Герасимова

Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, Marina and Ivan Schastykh had triplets and began life in a separate apartment number 13. But the naive 1980s are being replaced by the hungry 1990s, and the mood in the family is no longer rosy. Ivan, once the youngest and most promising candidate of sciences at Moscow State University, is forced to become a tutor and a homemaker while Marina earns money on the market. And then 2012 comes — the energy of the new age.

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Zakhar is the head of a big family who spent all his life living in a village in a private house. He is also the only one who refused to sell the land for the construction of a new residential complex. After all, not only his right to private property but also his happy memories are under threat: the old forest he knew since he was little was cut down, and the pond where he used to fish with his father was drained. Moreover, his grandson fell in love with the developer's daughter! While life seems to fall completely apart, Zakhar, together with his family, decides to stand his ground to the very end against urban developers, dissatisfied tenants of the newly built high-rise, and total injustice.

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