The average Moscow taxi driver starts suspecting that there is something wrong with his clients, who keep going about the city. Mysterious destinations, strange motions, hysterical laughter, puzzling placement of the black bundle. The protagonist is intrigued which leads to an unpleasant discovery. It turns out that the world has long been taken over by “psyons” – psychological operators controlling human mind.
Petya and Vova are oceanographers in their class, and while Petya was taking an academic leave, Vova had already received an offer to work in China. Petya comes to say goodbye to his friend before leaving and meets many strangers at the party. For some reason, the only one missing is Vova's neighbor Zhenya.
Four friends from a provincial mining town receive an order from "above" to intimidate and drive away a visiting blogger from the capital, who intends to highlight local environmental issues and raise the issue of a brown coal fire in a local open-pit mine. But from the very beginning, everything goes wrong for them: lateness, alcohol, arguments and inexperience make their own adjustments, and they themselves find themselves under fire.
