Lilliputian worked in the circus in the same act with the famous illusionist. Despite the fact that he was surrounded by a wide variety of people, he felt terribly alone. Beneath the bustle of the circus there was emptiness. And no one could fill it. A bright longing for perfection, a premonition of deep and strong passions one day pushed him into a relationship with an ordinary woman - the illusionist's wife...

A Soviet motor ship chartered by an English tourist firm sets off from London on a round-the-world voyage. A competing firm prepares a provocation on the ship. Mrs. Shelton, having learned that her husband is cheating on her, goes on this cruise to survive the tragedy alone. But on the way she awaits a lot of adventures, as a result of which determined and resourceful Mrs. finds new happiness and new love...

Second world war. In one of the German intelligence schools are preparing sabotage groups of Russian prisoners of war for casting in the USSR. Among them — Nikolai Verezhnikov, who, not being a professional scout, was able to impose their own game and interfere with the plans of the enemy…

A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington.

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye, among the new settlers called "our Cheryomushki". Lida and her father go to inspect the apartment, but it turns out that it doesn't exist. The manager of the house, Barabashkin, conducted fictitious documentation, and the Baburovs' apartment merged with the neighboring one, owned by the head of the construction trust Drebednyov.

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.

Anatoli Kuzmich retired and received a separate apartment in a new house. He and his wife are happy and make bright plans for the future: how they will go to theaters, museums, read their favorite books. But their daughter Lyusya suddenly gets married. Not wanting to part with her, Korolyovs persuade the young spouses to live with them in a new apartment. Soon a child is born, and gradually life together becomes unbearable...

A doctor from Poland is looking for his sister who got missing in the USSR during WWII.