"Here in Syktyvkar they steal everything from you. At first they steal your soul. It is stolen by the employer."
Fima, the production manager of the chemical combine of Syktyvkar, lives in a Soviet-time commune together with his fiancée Marina, transvestite friend Boris, his father Viktor who runs a private abortion clinic, and his mother Luza, who is a psychologist and -to put it mildly- peculiar. Everything should be fine. But everything is wrong. Fima is surrounded by strange incidents, and the whole world seems to be committed to driving Fima mad.
The birthrate should be increased, but at the same time the FSB is ordering poisoned teddy bears from the chemical combine. In the Udmurt suburb in the capital of Komi Republic, unborn children are disappearing from their mothers' wombs or they are born out of wrong mothers, whereas fathers dream about post-birth abortions.
What is behind Fima's misfortune? A childhood trauma? The hidden agenda of the FSB? Or is Fima the messiah to come? What will happen to Fima's unborn child? In any case, it is obvious that the decisive moment for the whole world, or at least for Russia, is drawing near...
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