Svetlana is the main character, a 42-year-old woman, a neurologist. Goes to advanced training courses. At lectures, considering this occupation very pointless, together with colleagues, he enters into a controversy with a famous professor who has been studying the human brain all his life. The man emotionally makes it clear to the women present that their behavior is very justified, since the human brain, in fact, always resists its own work, fulfilling its main natural purpose – to transmit the genome to the next generation. And modern society, trying to make people out of us, is only rushing against nature itself. Svetlana's personal life is not particularly developing. She's married. There are no children. Emotional and domestic disorder forces her to have a relationship on the side. What will she do at the most critical moment of her life and what will be her future fate, will it be the choice of her own mind or will nature put everything in its place?

17-year-old Renal is brought to a sex worker by his uncle to prove his masculinity to his patriarchal father.

In the measured and quiet everyday life of Tanya, Sergei, who was late for the Moscow train, appears. The world of a small station town with ancient temples opens up to him. He becomes imbued with Tanya’s church chants and learns the history of her family, traumatized by the loss. A new life begins for the girl in agonizing anticipation of meetings accompanied by the sound of the wheels of passing trains.

Valera is 57 years old, 24 of which he has been limited in his ability to move, and five of which he has not gone outside at all. Valera believes that he will be able to walk, although he does not consider himself fully functional, just like his opponents in the trial.

A young girl, Nadezhda, is preparing to become a mother for the first time, but becomes a victim of social discrimination in the maternity hospital because of her HIV status.