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.