A novella about the head of a large team working in the defense industry, a major scientist, who took the responsibility in difficult conditions to continue the failed experiments. The ensuing heart attack gave reason for his re-election, and his closest friend Astakhov, accusing Potapov of frivolity and self-rule, seeks to stop the tests. Potapov is suspended, his wife leaves him, there is a misfortune with a loved one. But he continues to work.

A New Year's story about children's friendship with unusual creatures: an animal made of cubes, a snag-horned beetle and a potato man, based on a fairy tale by Svetlana Letova.

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

About the workdays of a team of dockers.

1920s. The Krestyanskaya Pravda correspondent comes to the village where was an attempt on the young selkor. He learns about the gang of kulak members, led by the deputy chairman of the village council.

Based on the story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retribution, tries to understand: why and when did he, once having so many friends, become so indifferent towards other peoples lives.