Almazy dlya Bul'varnogo kol'ca

SSSR, konec 70-h. Vcherashniy student Oleg Haydarov iz absolyutno mirnoy i bespechnoy Moskvy popadaet v pylayuschuyu voynoy Angolu, kotoraya tol'ko chto rasstalas' s kolonial'nym proshlym i uzhe pogruzilas' v krovavuyu, zatyanuvshuyusya na dva desyatiletiya grazhdanskuyu boynyu. Voyna peremalyvaet lichnye otnosheniya, yunosheskiy romantizm, detskie predstavleniya o dobre i zle. Zdes' prochitannye knigi stanovyatsya bespoleznoy makulaturoy, dikie zveri v afrikanskoy savanne obretayut uznavaemye chelovecheskie cherty, Svoboda prevraschaetsya v prizrak dolgogo i ternistogo puti v beskonechnost', Rodina konchaetsya na lzhi i predatel'stve blizkih i nachinaetsya vnov', kogda voznikayut nadezhda, vera i lyubov'…