On the threshold of her sixtieth birthday, Tatyana Sergeevna unexpectedly faces a past that she has always tried to forget. It makes her look back and realize what kind of life she lived.

A road movie about a woman who comes back home while going through a crucial crisis in her life. An encounter with a still fairy childish hitch-hiker brings to life something that she believed to be buried deep in her past.

Post-WWII Russia, industrial city of Sverdlovsk. Former opera singer and mother to four children, Nina Levitskaya knows nothing about the fate of her husband. Communist party functionary Alexander disappeared almost a year ago and is now rumored to be in Moscow. With life becoming increasingly hard for the family, Nina decides to risk it all in hope of a reunion. She hastily sells everything she can, gathers her children, and sets out for the capital.

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The protagonist, a Siberian hunter Gavriil Sobinov, volunteers for the front after learning that his son Semyon, a young lieutenant, is missing. Gavriil wants to fights the enemy and find his son, but instead of the front lines, he finds himself in a supply platoon. He proves himself a hero in his very first combat and, after training at the sniper school, gets to the front lines. Gavriil is made commander of the sniper group. He continues the search for his son. The story of a German sniper Werner develops in parallel. He also ends up at the front with his son Dietrich fighting alongside him. A clash between the sniper fathers, whom fate is inexorably bringing together, is inevitable...

A hockey player who traded friendships for a career in the United States returns home with an incurable disease. He has little time left to atone for his former friends and find peace of mind before the medication that sustains his fight against death runs out. However, a conflict with local gangsters disrupts his plans.