On the wedding day, the groom has a fire. The house in which the young people were supposed to live and all their property burns down. In difficult times, Gosstrakh comes to the rescue by paying large monetary compensation to the injured newlyweds...

A young man named Nikolai Loshkarev, a student at a river college, is undergoing his first real-life experience—he finds a job he loves and sets off on his first voyage...

The parents of thirteen-year-old Andrei went on a six-month business trip abroad and rented an apartment to Nina Korableva, a kindergarten music teacher, to look after the boy. They became friends very quickly.

A very old man comes to the provincial town where he spent his youth. The flood of memories takes him far from reality, to which a little girl returns him, like two peas in a pod like his first love.

Eight men, eight stories about the morning after party...

In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.

A drama about a complicated life of a director in a small provincial theater.

Events take place in the White Sea, 1942. New recruit Andrei Bulygin is assigned as an assistant machine gunner on a small ship that delivers soldiers and weapons to the front line. On the way back, German fighters sink the ship, leaving only Andrei alive. Having got out on the ice, he enters into an unequal battle with the cold and the German pilot von Bettger attacking him from the air...

Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not need to achieve anything, everything is at his service — from black caviar to tickets to the conservatory. And the hero’s cloudless life would have flowed, but then his twin brother Sergei fell ill and asked Ivan to replace him in his equally strange work.

Based on materials from real criminal cases, it follows the trial of the trade mafia.