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2001 god. Uchashchiesi͡a vypusknogo klassa obychnoĭ sredneĭ shkoly, kazalosʹ by, zani͡aty tipichnymi dli͡a podrostkov problemami: ucheboĭ, svidanii͡ami, ėkzamenami, shkolʹnymi vecherinkami i rolevymi igrami. No pri ėtom "deti͡am devi͡anostykh" prikhoditsi͡a razreshatʹ sovsem ne detskie problemy: zarabatyvatʹ denʹgi, srazhatʹsi͡a za sebi͡a i svoi͡u li͡ubovʹ, lgatʹ, balansirovatʹ na grani zakona, vyzhivatʹ samim i dazhe reshatʹ voprosy zhizni ili smerti drugikh li͡udeĭ. Tem vremenem granʹ mezhdu zhiznʹi͡u i smertʹi͡u, ravno kak mezhdu realʹnostʹi͡u i illi͡uzieĭ, stanovitsi͡a vse tonʹshe…U prostoĭ shestnadt͡satiletneĭ shkolʹnit͡sy neozhidanno poi͡avli͡aetsi͡a unikalʹnai͡a vlastʹ - manipulirovatʹ drugim chelovekom i sozdavatʹ "realʹnosti", kotorye li͡udi zasluzhivai͡ut. No khvatit li u nee sil upravli͡atʹ ne tolʹko svoeĭ zhertvoĭ, no i sobstvennym razbushevavshimsi͡a talantom, uchityvai͡a, chto odin iz sozdannykh ei͡u obrazov vse bolʹshe zavladevaet ei͡u samoĭ?

The year is 2001. Students graduating from an ordinary high school would seem to be preoccupied with typical adolescent problems: studying, dating, exams, school parties, and role-playing games. But at the same time, the "children of the nineties" have to solve problems that are not at all childish: earn money, fight for themselves and their love, lie, balance on the edge of the law, survive on their own, and even decide on the life or death of other people. Meanwhile, the line between life and death, as well as between reality and illusion, is getting thinner.…A simple sixteen—year-old schoolgirl suddenly has the unique power to manipulate another person and create the "realities" that people deserve. But does she have the strength to control not only her victim, but also her own raging talent, given that one of the images she created is increasingly taking over herself?