Arriving in his native village, a young sculptor falls in love with one of the villager girl and decides to create a statue of her. This relationship ends with marriage after many vicissitudes.

Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as "an enemy of the people" and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overcrowded work camp, the mother and other women who are not considered strong enough to be labourers, must journey still farther, crossing the icy Siberian landscape in search of food and shelter. At the same time, the daughter escapes the orphanage and returns to her former home, where she finds that a KGB officer has taken up residence. He protects her and an uneasy rapport between them develops—one of abhorrence and attraction, need and suspicion.

A full-blooded, interesting life has long eluded the house where a mother, father, son and daughter live. Trivial household matters, conversation at dinner about duty — that's all that connects them. The situation changes when it becomes known that the family inherited the village house, and that it will probably be necessary to enter into a struggle with the joint heirs. From the bottom of chests, old albums and documents confirming the priority of the family are extracted, and intrigues begin ...

The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.

The film tells the story of an organization whose employees help the population via videophone, but because of this, they themselves encounter problems.

The film tells the story of two people who fall into the same ordeal. Someone shoots them, but does not kill them. Due to this strange fact, one of them becomes the object of persecution by law enforcement agencies, flees the city in fear, begins to act rashly and eventually commits a very serious crime. The other finds sympathy from the same law enforcement agencies, turns the incident itself into the center of the city's beau monde, and probably would have fulfilled his cherished dream, if not for ...