Cicadas

Asya Volodina (1991) — a prose writer, philologist, teacher of the Estonian language, author of the novels «Protagonist» and «Part of the Picture». Finalist of the «Lyceum» prize, laureate of the Art Theater prize and the «Moscow Art Prize». The... new novel «Cicadas» is inspired by the eponymous series released on the «KinoPoisk» platform. A party to celebrate the end of school ends in murder. The investigator, the principal, parents and the students themselves try to understand what led to this tragedy. But the deeper the investigator immerses himself in the story, the clearer he realizes: the teachers are far from school life, the parents know nothing about their children, and children can be cruel… Why do yesterday's friends bully you so easily today? «The heroes of this story are schoolchildren and their parents. Both groups are dissatisfied with the coordinate system in which they live, but the parents are faced with a choice to either obey or deceive the system, while the schoolchildren want to break free from it. To get out of the box». Yevgeny Stychkin, director and actor of the «Cicadas» series