a refrigerator lying on its side used as a makeshift table one depicts the figure of atlas holding the world the image of a globe supplanted by the chernobyl plantthere are pictures too of davydov as a handsome uniformed serviceman posing with comrades and in front of a patriotic sign declaring soldier we will revive life on the grounds of chernobyli was there i saw it all and i saw the scale he saidjust days after russian troops took the plant iodine tablets to block a certain kind of radiation were handed out in the village in case of emergency according to davydovbut his time working in the zone seems to have inured him to a fear of living opposite the zaporizhzhia plant even in a moment of crisisif you believe everything then you can go crazy he said so you filter everything through your experiencewhat will my fear do he asked how can it help me