After another scandal, the son of a Soviet functionary is sent to the organizing committee of the Olympic Games-80 for correction, where he begins to work as a simple volunteer. His boss is the daughter of a high—ranking military man, and she is not going to make any concessions to a spoiled guy from a rich family. Once on the other side of the world event poster, he will meet different people who will change his outlook on life — athletes, coaches and other volunteers. Through their eyes, he will see all the drama around the preparation for the big competition, which was on the verge of collapse.
Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.
Six friends are just starting their adult life. They fall in love, dream, and make plans for the future. When a tragedy strikes troubling issues and secrets are revealed, and their parents wonder if they know their children at all.
Once upon a time, Andrey went against the family tradition and, abandoning his career as a teacher, went to Moscow. The business failed, and the only way to fix things was to sell the family house, which, according to rumors, Pushkin once lived in. But there is a problem: in order to make a deal, it is necessary to obtain the permission of the father, who is serving time in the colony and blames his son for this. In order to improve relations, Andrey goes to the trick and gets a job as a teacher at an evening school at the colony. But this seems to be not enough, and to prove the sincerity of his intentions to return to teaching, Andrei simultaneously gets a job at an ordinary school as a literature teacher. During the day, he instills a love for beautiful teenagers, and in the evening — prisoners. And it's not always clear which school is safer to work at.
Alla devoted most of her life to her ex-husbands, son and daughter. She works as a tutor while continuing to support her adult children and husbands. Relatives come to her for lunch every day, not at all interested in Alla herself. In one of these family dinners, choking on potatoes, Alla almost dies, but "relatives" do not even notice this.
Sasha Zorina, who at the age of 10 became famous throughout the country for her main role in the popular blockbuster "Aurora", 15 years later works as a telephone psychologist at the suicide prevention center, drinks a lot and tries to continue her acting career without much success. When she comes to her senses after a protracted celebration of her 25th birthday, she realizes that she absolutely does not remember the previous four weeks. Trying to reconstruct the events of the month that fell out of her memory, the heroine plunges deeper into her past, where everything turns out to be much scarier and more dangerous than she thought.
Pavel is an ordinary young man whose father once left the family without explanation. But instead of being angry at the parent, Pasha does not believe that dad could have committed a bad act intentionally, and decides to investigate his disappearance, coming up with all sorts of theories and checking their truth as events go on.
Martha, at the age of eight, leads a life full of childish worries. The only relative nearby is the grandfather, who needs supervision more than the granddaughter. In order not to end up in an orphanage, Martha hides the truth from a teacher, a district police officer and a glamorous neighbor and asks a loser actor to pretend to be her father. Kazan relatives come to the rescue in the person of adventurer Marat. Only in the plans of the arrogant boy, not caring about the girl, but her Moscow apartments.