Aleksey Balabanov

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Arriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Mostly inspired from Kafka's unfinished novel "The Castle", a man gets called to a village for a job that no one called for, finds himself tangled up in a super-bureaucratic mess, and now he needs to fight his way around it.

The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.