A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Once in the countryside, Igor is accommodated by a peasant family living in the middle of nowhere close to a ruined church. The family is convinced that their dead patriarch will return from the dead as a blood-drinking fiend exactly nine and a half days after his demise.

The action of the film takes place in a small provincial town and is divided into four short stories connected with each other by storylines.

The group of stuntmen comes to the beach to shoot an adventure film. Guys are training all day long, polishing their skills. One of the stuntmen witnessed two men pursuing the girl. He saves her from bullies, and the fugitive finds protection and patronage in the crew. However, a woman's behaviour is strange: she keeps having nightmares, she's afraid of something or someone, but refuses to explain what was going on. Men realize that their new friend is hiding something ...

The chief engineer proposes to make changes to the design of the polar hydroelectric power station by abandoning the construction of the tunnel due to a collapse.

Peter Petrovich Belkin, a lazybones, drifts from one job to another in search of a "cushy job." Eventually, he ends up in a workplace where his colleagues decide to teach the slacker a lesson...