Tsement

Gleb Chumalov returns from the blood-soaked battlefields of the Russian Civil War to a home that feels more like a graveyard than a town. His former pride, the massive cement factory, sits as a silent, rusting skeleton of its former self. Appointed by the Party to resurrect this industrial titan, Gleb finds himself fighting a new kind of war—one fought against the apathy of a broken workforce and the strangling red tape of a new Soviet bureaucracy. As he navigates the treachery of 'technical specialists' who harbor secret loyalties to the old world, Gleb must forge a new collective identity from the ashes of the old. It is a story of grit, where the hardening of concrete serves as a metaphor for the hardening of the revolutionary spirit against impossible odds.