An old couple live their days out in the abandoned village within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Being at odds, they stopped talking to each other, and now the only way of communication they have is a rusty 'mail kettle' on the wire.

The action begins at a meeting in a Voronezh hospital. Doctor Tatiana Bobrova is nervous - she needs to go home, but the head doctor won't let her go until all the issues are resolved. Finally, she manages to escape. Her husband, police captain Sergei Bobrov, who holds one of the key positions in the Internal Affairs Department, is waiting for her at home. He meets her with a stream of accusations, quickly drives himself into a frenzy and beats Tatiana, neatly bypassing her face and visible parts of her body. Tatiana got married three months ago, and two weeks ago had already suffered one beating. That time he apologized, swore that it would never happen again... Even then she had already considered running away, but did not have time to prepare properly. And now Tatiana decides to escape immediately.

Vasyl goes to work abroad. He will bring a significant amount of money and hopes to be able to spend it to support his family. But what is his family would be like? The patient mother seems limited in time. And his girlfriend has even less hope.

One day, Tina’s ex-husband Lenchik and his young wife Alina unceremoniously invade Tina’s apartment. A schoolteacher, intelligent and sophisticated, Tina can do nothing to oppose the impudent impudence of her ex-husband. The situation gets even worse when Alina abandons her newborn son and hides in an unknown direction. Lenchik decides to return to his relationship with Tina. And he acts with his usual unceremoniousness.

Irina, a small-town nurse, has a heart defect. According to the doctors' prognosis, her heart has not much time left to beat, and there is no one to take care of her six-year-old daughter Anna. Irina feverishly tries to find a way out and she gets the idea that Anya could be brought up by her grandfather - the father of the young man who left Irina pregnant. All she knows about her daughter's grandfather, Igor Vasilyevich Kutepov, is that he is a rather successful businessman and 63 years old.

A thief named "Wolf", who could not be caught, decides to start a new life. Having got a plumber, he repairs a leak in the apartment, which is committed robbery. Wolfy and the owner of the apartment are held hostage by two criminals on the one hand, and the capture group on the other. Operation on neutralization of criminals is directed by the captain of militia — the sworn enemy of the former thief. The captain believes that the attack on the apartment antiquarian — the handiwork of the Top. From this moment, in the life of the Wolf burst events that do not dream even in the most terrible dream…

Everyone considers the world a hopeless old maid. Yes, and the Light itself has long given up on itself: no makeup, no hairstyles, no outfits. Her sister’s husband introduces her to his assistant Cyril, a shy old bachelor who liked Sveta very much. However, he did not arouse sympathy with Sveta, but she is silent about this so as not to offend Cyril. At this time, the former beloved of Sveta returns to the city from abroad. He is the new owner of the restaurant, in which the heroine works as a waitress. Now this is one of the most enviable suitors.

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.

The fairy tale plot about the old wife and husband without children in new realities. The old woman finds a baby in the cabbage and decides to take him home. She hurries back to her husband to show him the child. But sees him preparing for death.