Galya Shalamova falls in love with the aspiring blogger Hans Schluse. But the frivolous major quickly gets bored with this novel — it seems to him that Galya stuck to him like chewing gum. Hans finds an unconventional way to break off the relationship. However, Hans did not realize that Galya would not give up everything halfway and get to the truth…
Sergey, a businessman from Barnaul, comes to Mexico on vacation with his adult daughter Dasha. At the hotel, Dasha meets a girl of the same age, Anya, who came on vacation with her father, Mikhail, a professor of geology. The girls want to have fun, and they go to a nightclub, from where they do not return. At night, a dead Mexican guy is found on the seashore, with whom Dasha and Anya were last seen. After a short investigation, the police announce that the girls also drowned. At the same time, their bodies could not be found, and in general the case looks very confusing. Sergei and Mikhail believe that the girls were abducted by locals, but no arguments work on the police. A heated Sergei makes a scandal, which is why he and Mikhail are ordered to leave the country, otherwise they will go to prison.
The story takes place on a quiet peninsula away from Buenos Aires, where more than the first generation of Russian Old Believers live, preserving their language, faith and way of life. The main characters are real opposites: she is an Old Believer who lives by the rules of the community, and he is a policeman, an emigrant from Russia, who knows no mercy for criminals. They were not destined to meet, but their paths crossed…
Kyrgyz Mika deceives both his beloved girlfriend and his mother, and sometimes himself. Over time, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to dodge and control the consequences of his lies.