Aleksandr Volokhov

The story is about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Hamburg, locked in a castle in quarantine. William, the Messenger who brought the news of the plague, is also locked up in the castle.

Every summer for 11 years the Belyaevs' from Severodvinsk has been spending their vacation in Gelendzhik. The Northerners stay with their old friends in the same guesthouse. The long-term friendship of the families led to the fact that a young man, the son of the head of the "Northerners" family named Sasha, this summer, firmly decided to propose to Lyusya, the daughter of the head of the "Southerners" family ... Meanwhile, the Northerners' family is on the verge of divorce. Larisa is tired of tolerating her childish husband Seva Belyaev, who just can't grow up. The last straw was the news that Seva, before leaving on vacation, quit his job without telling anyone. The conflict within the family explodes, and Larisa announces to her husband that she intends to get a divorce ... The situation in the Southerners family is not easy either. It turns out that over this year Lyusya's father has found a new girlfriend - Madina.

The family of a former military man who is used to setting his own rules in any circumstances; a modern hipster family whose marriage is collapsing before our eyes; an aging actress with a young lover; a kept woman who was abandoned by her "daddy" and a crazy grandfather living in the attic. They will have to learn to accept each other with all the disadvantages, because they have no other living space.

Farmer Nikolay has long ago settled on Mars with his family. He leads a peaceful life and tends to his robot-aided farmstead until the Head of a large corporation comes to Mars to get rid of the village and launch a new production line.