Rat-Catcher

The year is 2032. Ten years after a war with a race of genetically altered humans dubbed ‘rats’, special units of ‘rat catchers’ seek out and exterminate the last remaining hybrids. One of them is Zoe. She manages to evade detection using a false identity, and becomes a rat catcher herself. Any out of character slip on her part could expose Zoe for who she really is, and an encounter with her ‘rat’ father, with whom she lost contact during the war, could cost Zoe her life.

The Tolstoy Defence

The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real...