The film was filmed based on the play of the same name by Viktor Shenderovich. A black comedy about a striking journey of two agents Tchepigin and Mishkin to the Mother Russia. Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were targeted with the Novichok nerve agent in March 2018 in Salisbury. A UK investigation blamed the Russian military intelligence GRU for the attack, identifying two suspects. In 2014, two explosions of ammunition depots occurred in Vrbetice, the Czech Republic, two people were killed in the first explosion. Czech government announced on 17 April 2021 that the same Russian agents were involved in these explosions, too.