The story takes place in the nearest future. The main character, Georgiy, spends every night at the lake looking up at flying spacecrafts to Mars, Jupiter and Titan and other far away planets. One day he decides to spend all the family money to buy a spacecraft. When he finds out that the rocket is out of order and may cost him his life, Georgiy takes a chance and organizes a space journey with his children.

A Moscow family is trying to hide from the chaos that's dragging the whole world into the black whirlpool of the apocalypse. But barricades in the corridor and hazmat suits won't help. Absurd and nightmares penetrate their haven through disturbing dreams full of lust, death and blood. Very soon they realize that strange mystical rituals with animals in the apartment won't save them. They haven't noticed how they crossed the line of normality. Thay have long been inside the deadliest spider on earth. The Devil, Stalin, Bill Gates, Madonna, the Russian Soldier and the Coffin Man are already on the threshold of their gloomy home.

Soldier Vasily with the call sign "Bernes" is going on vacation to Donetsk. But on the way to the "loaf" on which he is riding, a shell hits and seriously injures a man. Overcoming pain and fear, Bernes crawls through the minefield to his own. Meanwhile, his family is waiting for him in Donetsk — his wife and little daughter, who recently enrolled in a music school. Despite the shelling of a peaceful city, the girl learns to sing and waits for a holiday — the day when her father returns home.