Schoolboy Petya Ivanov receives a letter from a famous scientist and 20 grains of a new high-yield variety of wheat. Petya and his schoolmates decide to create an experimental plot. Fearing that adults will take the seeds away from them, the children do everything in secret.

Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.

The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press concern. During the investigation, he learns about the existence of the 31st department, created by the management of the concern with the aim of eliminating the opposition press.

The film consists of K.G.Paustovsky's four short stories about failed love

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."

A funny comedy based on the famous theater play "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni.

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.

The journalist of the village newspaper Tatyana Nikitina was published in a large metropolitan newspaper, but no one from the villagers believes her, because the article itself was published under her creative pseudonym. Tatyana, offended at everyone, packed her things and left for Moscow, where she was willingly hired for a job in a central newspaper. Traveling throughout the country, she writes feuilletons and notes, finds friends and enemies, finds and does not lose loved ones...

The Soviet command has alarming information about the new invention of the enemy. According to intelligence, the Nazis delivered a batch of new chemical shells filled with gas of tremendous destructive power to one of the sections of the Eastern Front. The Nazis want to test them in combat conditions, and then apply them on a large scale.