Plot

The writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants.

A father travels with a UN envoy to the isolated town of Tashlinsk in search of his daughter, who has been institutionalized by a group of "non-humans". He must race against time before the authorities purge this mysterious institution. (Russian with English subtitles).—Anonymous

AKA The Ugly Swans

Synopsis: The writer, Viktor Banev, is seconded to the UN mission in Tashlinsk, a Zone town shrouded in perpetual rain and mist. In reality Banev has come in search of his daughter Ira who is living in a boarding school for gifted children run by mysterious mutants called mokretsy (the wet ones). When the authorities plan to destroy the Zone together with its inhabitants, Viktor decides to rescue Ira.