Chernobyl: Abyss is a 2021 Russian disaster film that tells the story of Alexey Karpushin, a firefighter who becomes a liquidator during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. With his experience of fire inspections on nuclear reactor corridors, Alexey (Danila Kozlovsky) volunteers for a high-risk mission to drain a water reservoir beneath a melting reactor, potentially preventing an even greater catastrophe. As he embarks on this perilous endeavor, his personal life and relationships are put to the test, including a complicated romance with a hairdresser (Oksana Akinshina) who is also his son's mother.