A story about growing up in an era where morality is like Shishonin's exercise: painful and with no guarantee of results. Through the prism of everyday absurdity, from school lessons to Moscow beggars on electric scooters, one gets a sense of cultural fatigue and awkwardness in a world where even the word "sadism" sounds like a challenge to common sense. There are no promises of justice, but plenty of panic, cynicism and attempts to preserve humanity in the midst of chaos.
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