We are watching the series, melodrama, The Handiwork of Drowning Men, episodes 1-4

In the center of the plot is a young teacher Marina Konovalyuk from the small town of Novye Plavni and policeman Alexei Tereshchenko, “exiled” from the region. Marina believed in the sincerity of a married man and got into a huge scandal, and Lesha committed a serious official misconduct. New Plavni are on the verge of flooding due to abnormal rainfalls. The townspeople, out of habit, hope that someone “from above” will solve their problems, but the circumstances are such that saving drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves. And not only their future, but also the salvation of the entire city depends on whether Marina and Alexey can swim out of their own troubles...
Director: Anton Azarov
Screenwriter: Yaroslava Segal
Operator: Maxim Gutsu
Composer: Vladlen Pupkov
Artist: Alena Ostapenko
Producer: Irina Zarya, Irina Chemeris
Casting director: Olga Dovgal
Acting assistant: Olesya Bezruchko
Cast: Pyotr Rykov, Elena Shilova, Valeria Khodos, Alexander Kryzhanovsky, Dmitry Chernov (II), Sergey Dzyalik, Mark Drobot, Tamara Antropova, Konstantin Koretsky, Inga Nagornaya, Fatima Gorbenko, Alexey Zorin, Maxim Luchak
Production: Ukrainian production studio
Premiere: September 13, 2021 (TRK Ukraine)
Number of episodes: 8
Genre: melodrama