Food Block

“The hot summer of 1980. The capital is shaken by the Olympics, and in a small pioneer camp on the banks of the Volga, everything is quiet and calm. Pioneers march in lines, play football, and at night tell scary stories; young leaders fall in love with each other; a river tram brings cans of milk, and village dogs whirl around the food block. But the life of the pioneer camp, seemingly serene at first glance, has its secret and dark side. Among the pioneers hide vampires. Their will determines what happens in plain sight. 'Food Block' is a simple and cheerful story about complicated and serious things. There are children just being children — with games, quarrels, fantasies, and foolishness. There is pioneering, which is no longer needed and formal. And there are vampires who need to live among people, but according to their vampiric rules. How does vampiric mystique infiltrate dead Soviet rituals and reshape the living and natural behavior of children? How do love and friendship oppose the inherited laws of ideology and vampirism? In short, for whom the horn tolls for the horned, and to whose drum does the drummer march?” Alexey Ivanov