The writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants.
A father travels with a UN envoy to the isolated town of Tashlinsk in search of his daughter, who has been institutionalized by a group of "non-humans". He must race against time before the authorities purge this mysterious institution. (Russian with English subtitles).—Anonymous
AKA The Ugly Swans
Synopsis: The writer, Viktor Banev, is seconded to theUN mission in Tashlinsk, a Zone town shrouded in perpetualrain and mist. In reality Banev has come in search of hisdaughter Ira who is living in a boarding school for giftedchildren run by mysterious mutants called mokretsy(the wet ones). When the authorities plan to destroy the Zonetogether with its inhabitants, Viktor decides to rescue Ira.