Alexandr Karavaev

100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?

There are six of them: Andrey, Lex, Silver, Fox, Dean and Dina — young, desperate, ready for any risk. Alice, the owner of the hothouse, offers them good money. But "money is clearly not easy" — Alice honestly warns. Why do they agree? Everyone has their own path full of criminal adventures to this decision. Initially unrelated to each other, the heroes, by the will of their dashing destinies, gradually come closer until they find themselves together in Alice's case. They do not regret that life turned out that way. They like freedom on the verge of a foul. And they don't seek forgiveness—even in the face of death...