"Text" tells the history of the 27-year-old Ilya Goriunov (Alexander Petrov), which is coming to freedom seven years of imprisonment. It is unfairly accused of spreading drugs, he finds the culprit of his heavy position of Peter (Ivan Yankovsky) and gets involved in a fight. According to the outcome of the scuffle to Ilya, his phone falls, with the help of which he is trying on someone else's person. In addition to the problems pursuing Goryunov after prison, the history of revenge complicates the girl Peter Nina (Christina Asmus).
The author of Roman Dmitry Glukhovsky commented on the fact that the first trailer of the picture came out during the trial over journalist Ivan Golunov, accused of distributing drugs. "I wanted to write a novel about what happens. About what can happen to each. Incredibly, as the story of the journalist Ivan Golunov was similar to the history of the hero of my book "Text" Ilya Goriunova. In fact, there is only one mystical and inexplicable coincidence - similarity of names, and the rest is statistics, "the writer said.