The Ugly Swans

Viktor Banev, a novelist, after living several years in the United States, comes back to Russia as an observer for the UNO, to study the village of Tashlinsk. An absolute enigma for scientists throughout the world, the small town is stricken by strange climatic phenomena. Houses have been flooded and are now in advanced state of decay. Moreover, Tashlinsk is occupied by mutants endowed with an above-average intelligence, who have built a strange school for gifted children…