A kind of film mosaic, composed of 13 separate short stories. All together they tell about one day in the life of people who are next to us in a large port city.

A good guy from a prosperous family Gena Rusanov studies at the institute, loves a girl and is ready to get married. The bride is happy and is also looking forward to the wedding. And suddenly something happens to Gena. He starts drinking vodka and very quickly sinks to the bottom. But he is watched by good and sensitive people. They will not let Gena finally perish and will help him to return to an honest and healthy life.

An armed gang carries out a daring raid on a jewelry store in Alushta, stealing a large amount of valuables. Shortly thereafter, a murder takes place on the Simferopol–Kyiv express train. Investigator Petrov must find the killer before the train arrives at the Kyiv station. After questioning the passengers, Petrov concludes that they are all lying and that every suspect has a motive for the crime.

Genka is a schoolboy from Moscow. Having seen enough American action movies, he longs for adventure and the opportunity to try himself in a real man's business. His imagination is filled with visions of his idols - Schwarzenegger, Stallone, star humanoids - who offer Genka to leave the earth. However, the hero chooses the "region of heaven“ with true idols who restore the concepts of friendship, honor, and love to their noble meaning, which have been devalued today.

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime

Mariana Kudel, the best milkmaid at the Trud collective farm, actively criticizes the conservative chairman, and as a result, she now works with the worst cows. She is clearly opposed by Katya Kvitko, the record holder for milk production, who is strongly supported by the chairman. Busy with the fuss, Katya pays little attention to her work and quarrels with Vasily, a zootechnician who is in love with her, and her friend Maryana. As a result of her carelessness, the record-breaking cow Volshebnitsa dies. Maryanka works from morning till late at night and soon takes first place. Katya, however, only comes in fifth. Selfless Maryanka loves Vasily, but nevertheless helps him and Katya find each other again...

In the remote Ukrainian village of Dykanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oksana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the help of some odd characters from the village and the Devil himself.

A story of two delinquent boys at a boarding school, struggling to cope with fathers who abandoned them, and retreating into fantasy.

A young actor's family is starring in a film about the "beautiful life". But the shooting is over, and we have to return to the bleak reality.