The subject of this book is the adventures of genres in auteur cinema. It is customary to think that genre defines the features of mainstream films, but it is embedded in the foundation of the poetics of any individual directorial method.

The diverse selection of films in which genre conventions are reimagined suggests a different — unexpected — perception for viewers.

The book also features dialogues between Zara Abdullaeva and Oleg Zintsov and Evgeny Gusyatinsky.