A journalist finds himself in a dire criminal situation. Some would resort to violence, but he picks up a pen and masterfully extricates himself from the predicament, turning the entire city upside down in the process.

Shattering the story of a talented former boxer. He lost his memory. He does not remember what happened yesterday. He can not sleep. Each morning starts with a clean sheet for him. The powers that be decided to use it in my game. As a bargaining chip. He will understand. And revenge. In one day, he needs to catch it.

The body of one of the club members was found at an elite paintball base near St. Petersburg. He was executed the way traitors and apostates were executed in Ancient Russia. Similar incidents are occurring on the territory of several neighboring States. And their victims are people who violated the oath they once took.

Sergei, always hanging out on business trips, dreams of being on a "desert island" with his beloved Masha. A pandemic that suddenly hit the world gives him this chance by locking his lovers at home in quarantine. “In a cage,” lovers, having gone through five stages of accepting the inevitable, are forced to get to know each other anew and accept themselves and the world around as it is. And everything would be fine if not for the invasion of aliens.

On the day of her twentieth wedding anniversary, Nadezhda Grushina loses everything that made up the meaning of her life: her businessman husband leaves for another, her grown-up daughter goes abroad. Nadezhda remains alone in her parents' large apartment in the center of St. Petersburg.