Sergey Kotyukh

Varya has chosen, as they say, a not entirely female profession: she wants to become a firefighter. The girl comes for some work experience to a fire brigade where she must prove to everybody that she is worthy of being there.

Again, a commotion in a small Volga town, a girl disappeared again, they are again looking for a maniac. Zhenya is the only one who knows the truth: the death of the child was an accident. Actually, the girl died almost before his eyes. Only he does not dare to tell this truth to anyone. The fact is that Zhenya was released from prison a couple of days ago, and the sister of the deceased child is Zhenya's ex-girlfriend who left him. The ideal accused. And Zhenya embarks on a difficult, humiliating, dangerous operation to secretly bury a corpse, but if he can go to the end in his deceit, he will lose himself.

An almanac of three stories.