On the Black Sea flagship RFS Moskva, two worlds are at war.

In the pristine, orderly corridors of the upper decks, Midshipman Ivan Volkov lives by the book. A fervent believer in procedure and discipline, he sees the warship as a flawless symbol of Russian might, an invincible fortress he is sworn to protect. His faith is the ship's true armor.

But deep in the ship’s belly, a different reality festers. CPO Misha Petrov, known as "The Mole," navigates a labyrinth of decay and corruption. He keeps the ship alive not with procedure, but with stolen parts, jury-rigged machinery, and a cynical understanding that the Moskva is a beautiful lie, a warship waging a war against itself. For Misha, the ship is already sinking; it just hasn't taken on water yet.

When two missiles tear through the night, the ship's inner rot is exposed with catastrophic violence. The collision of metal and ideology throws these two men together in a desperate fight for survival. With the command structure shattered and the official narrative a delusion broadcast over the speakers, Ivan's faith is broken against the hard steel of Misha's reality.

To escape the inferno of the dying ship, they must navigate flooded decks , burning corridors , and the brutal calculus of who lives and who dies. "Two Holes Below the Waterline" is a harrowing story of survival, a damning critique of institutional decay, and an exploration of the terrible choices men make when the systems they believe in have already drowned them.