A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.

Nina is a young woman of thirty years, who lives in St. Petersburg. She has to bury her mother in a winter day. The ceremony is an opportunity for her to meet her younger brother Andrei, who lives elsewhere.

A happy family, three charming children, love and harmony… The world collapses overnight when the heroine is killed by a car. Her husband doesn't understand how to move on, but at the same time he can't shut himself in and lie down on the couch, otherwise who will take care of the children?

Eight years after his family was murdered he has returned home to bury his past and discover his future.

Based on L. Yelisieieva’s short story "Far Away". In the 1920s–30s, a girl named Liolia grows up in poverty after her father is killed in the so-called “Civil War.” Her mother’s new marriage brings fear and violence into the home, so Liolia is sent to live with her grandmother, where she finds peace—though only briefly.