One day my husband came home from hunting, and there... the wife is alone, but in complete shock because she was raped. The husband calls an ambulance with the police, grabs a gun and runs to deal with everyone who comes along. Some higher power has already unwound its ruthless flywheel. The gun will certainly shoot, and more than once, blood will be shed, lives will be destroyed...

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.

Teenager Ruslan takes care of the dying old man Tikhon, the village sorcerer who has been healing people all his life. Tikhon dies, and the local priest refuses to conduct the funeral service. Ruslan decides to fix it himself.

Law student Oleg, who lives with his mother and stepfather, learns that his father has been released from prison and wants to see him. Having met his dad, Oleg discovers that he is a passionate lover of gambling. So the young man plunges into the world of big poker, underground casinos and research laboratories. Having become part of this shadow reality, Oleg becomes infected with a gaming addiction.

Two young boys must decide what is more important for them - duty or friendship.

Two classmates are trying to find a mysterious lake inhabited with a few feet long fishes.

Vadim Uporov is desperate to escape from the Gulag. He tries and tries - again and again...