The Russian village is beautiful: clean air, the blue expanse of the river, fresh milk straight from the cow, and the future here seems so bright, so wonderful... Until a little girl named Dasha sees a black horse with a white eye - a sure sign of impending disaster. And on the calendar - June 21st...

An ordinary nine-meter kitchen of an ordinary Russian apartment. Prosaic and mundane. But the kitchen contains many objects, and each of them has something to say.

Tamara Semyonovna is getting ready to go to a rally on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, held by the radical opposition every 31st of the calendar. And she is getting ready for a reason: under her skirt she has a surprise for the protesters.

And these are only a few of the stories that mix reality and metaphysics in the postmodern cocktail of the collection "Monoclon" by Vladimir Sorokin.