Anton Filipenko

A story of three estranged sisters, Irina, Olga, and Maria, who are brought back together following their father’s death to run his car service business. It was their father that had driven them apart, but now they must resolve their issues in order to manage a team of forty men in a business they barely know or understand. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the sisters are very unlike. Irina is a self-made businesswoman from Moscow, Olga is an airy and impractical literature teacher from a small town and Maria is a hairdresser from Saratov, who dreams of earning a lot of money but is forced to live with her alcoholic husband.

USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.