The film is dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges, one of the giants of the written word of the 20th century. Borrowed and altered from the work of Borges and others, from world history and literature - Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the (anti)utopian new world, the "civilization of the spectacle.", they intertwine with Borges's theories of the cyclicality of time and the infinity of the universe.

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

Two very similar families are settling in two identical houses in a new fashionable neighborhood built near a complex of panel-apartment buildings. The couples are in their forties. The husbands are moderate professionals and the wives are housewives without children and with firmly fixed habits. Step by step they find out how similar they are and step by step they come to hate each other. The more they strive to be different and the more they fail, the stronger their malice and their lust to harm each other grow.

The title is based on the idiomatic expression "shmenti capelli" characterizing actions of people who like to shuffle and bamboozle others with superficial commitments. Karamfilov choose it as a metaphor for people with huge economic and political power. The funny comedy incorporates a tragic story in which Karamfilov plays two roles: the Big Guy and the Little Guy. Big is tied to the Mafia and the Secret services. Little is an unemployed teacher, squeezed and crushed by the system, which stops his heating and electricity, has his home emptied by a bailiff, and uses him as a tool in a game.

In a post communist Eastern European country in 1996 the food prices are outrageous and times are tough. A little girl steals from the jar, containing her poor family's meager savings. Then she buys a bar of chocolate from the neighborhood store... As the story unfolds, the real intentions of the little devil become clear. This is a story about the warm relationship between a little girl and her father despite the difficult conditions they have to live in.

In secret institute in the mid 80s of last century, experiments are conducted to freeze people. The similarity of the two names confused destinies of several people. Twenty years later, accidentally frozen man wakes up in a new and very different world absurdities of mature socialism faced with the absurdities of today ...

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.

A tale of man's inability to reconcile achieving the good with preserving the good. A glimpse into a world where love has been replaced by base human passions. A world of fear and wealth, of violence and lies, of physical strength and spiritual weakness. The young French teacher Nelly Kodeva and the venerable "businessman of the year" Kosta Keikenov cross paths by chance. Fighting in absentia for their personal right, the two unleash the spirit of evil in themselves and together destroy a human life.

Giovanni Bertone a former colonel, is a fraudster who extorts money from the families of the Nazi-Fascist prisoners. He promises them their freedom. Discovered by Colonel Muller he is offered a pact: to save his life, he must go to Milan with a false identity to discover the members belonging to the Resistance.