During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

Kira is 36. She works at the Pulkovo Airport call centre and lives with her younger sister Vera and her daughters. A couple years ago, their mother kicked the sisters out of the house and later disappeared. It's time for Kira to accept that her mother is dead and move on: get the death certificate, claim her inheritance and start living separately from her sister and nieces. A new life awaits her. But Kira does not want to change anything and dreams only of her mother coming back.

Kolya wakes up after a terrible drinking binge. He is awakened by a call from his sister, who tells him that their father's body has been lost in the morgue. Kolya is indifferent to this news, but suddenly, while walking around the apartment, he stumbles upon his father's body in his bathroom. Now Kolya is forced to secretly return his father's body to the morgue.