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Dva Arbata. Staryĭ i Novyĭ, a na styke - izvestnyĭ restoran. Zdanie, kotoroe pomnit vsë: ot voni͡uchikh traktirov do zolotykh vremen SSSR, kogda zdesʹ rozhdalisʹ legendy gastronomii. Teperʹ zhe fasad obodran, okna zakolocheny, a vnutri t͡sarit mertvai͡a tishina... ili ėto tolʹko vidimai͡a storona?Kazhdyĭ Novyĭ god zdesʹ chto-to proiskhodit. Svet, probivai͡ushchiĭsi͡a skvozʹ shcheli v doskakh. Teni, skolʹzi͡ashchie v bokovoĭ vkhod.Kto reshaetsi͡a voĭti v zakrytyĭ restoran nochʹi͡u, kogda mir zamiraet pod boĭ kurantov?Otvet pridetsi͡a iskatʹ li͡udi͡am, kotorykh ne svela by sudʹba ni pri kakikh obstoi͡atelʹstvakh, esli by ne ėtot restoran: sovsem molodenʹkoĭ devushke, izbalovannomu mazhoru, stariku-klounu, zhenshchine-voitelʹnit͡se i plovchikhe, kotorai͡a uzhe davno ne mozhet khoditʹ. Vse oni dumali, chto prosto idut na taĭnyĭ Novogodniĭ bal, no na samom dele stali chastʹi͡u strashnoĭ igry, kotorai͡a proiskhodit za ėtimi dveri͡ami vot uzhe 155 let.

Two Arbats. Old and New, and at the junction there is a famous restaurant. A building that remembers everything from smelly inns to the golden days of the USSR, when gastronomy legends were born here. Now the facade is stripped, the windows are boarded up, and there is dead silence inside... or is it just the visible side?Every New Year, something happens here. The light coming through the cracks in the boards. Shadows sliding into the side entrance.Who dares to enter a closed restaurant at night when the world freezes to the sound of chimes?The answer will have to be found by people who would not have been brought together by fate under any circumstances if it were not for this restaurant: a very young girl, a spoiled major, an old clown, a warrior woman and a swimmer who has not been able to walk for a long time. They all thought they were just going to a secret New Year's Eve ball, but in fact they have become part of a scary game that has been going on behind these doors for 155 years.