'It's the hot summer of 1980. The capital is rocked by the Olympics, but at a small pioneer camp on the banks of the Volga, all is quiet and calm. The pioneers march in formation, play football, and tell scary stories at night; young camp counselors fall in love; a riverboat brings milk cans, and village dogs hang out near the food block. But life at the pioneer camp, seemingly serene, has its secret and dark side. Vampires hide among the pioneers. Their will determines what happens in plain sight. 'The Food Block' is a simple and cheerful story about complex and serious things. There are children like children—with games, quarrels, fantasies, and stupidity. There is pioneering, no longer needed by anyone and formal. And then there are vampires who must live among people, but by their own vampire rules. How does vampire mysticism infiltrate dead Soviet rituals and remake the living and natural behavior of children? How do love and friendship confront the stagnant laws of ideology and vampirism? In short, whose horn sounds for the bugler, and to whose drum does the drummer march? Alexey Ivanov.