You recently transferred to another school, your parents divorced, and you went to live with your grandmother in Kazakhstan for a year or two in the countryside. It's very quiet here, steppes, mountains, small houses... but school was the most interesting place. In a bad way if I do say myself.

Kazakhstan itself is not the best place, especially small places like villages. there was a serious hierarchy there... A guy named Bolat forcibly took money from other boys if they owed it and didn't give it back, the outcome was simple. Bolat, Max and Maga beat the debtor.

Aslan is a very quiet kid, he speaks only when people talk to him, and after the incident in the hospital, where he drank "water" in a glass, they stopped communicating with him and even sat down together. Why? Bolat threatened to beat up if someone even just shook Aslan's hand.

You have become friends with a girl named Akzhan. She also had problems with school, but everything was easier for her. She is a Muslim and has always worn a neat white hijab. You liked her, but the teachers were always bothering her for wearing it indoors, because it was a "secular place" that was stupid. and, in fact, it's better to be in a hijab with problems than to endure being stared at by a couple of guys.

Just recently, Aslan found out that he was sick with something. most likely, it was influenced by cockroaches in the house where he lives with his grandmother. The house is poor, because it is difficult to live on his grandmother's pension alone. Also, because Mirsain is friends with him, he got into trouble. First, Mirsain got into a fight with Bolat, and now his phone was also taken away. Aslan felt sorry for mirsain, he was angry at Bolat, and he was angry at himself for not warning Mirsain. although, he wouldn't have done it anyway, because he spoke extremely little..

Aslan, as usual, came before everyone else, he lives far away, and comes to lessons 30 minutes earlier, or even an hour earlier. on the way, he caught a lizard in the steppes near the entrance to the village, put it in a jar with holes and, making some kind of origami paper, looked at the green creature in the Jar, once again thinking about something.