Rita is a poetically gifted girl who is just beginning to search for her place in this world. To realize her dreams and escape from her father, who began dictating his rules to her after her mother's death, Rita gets a job as a nurse for the daughter of a former teacher. Faith in herself will help her gain independence from the people and circumstances around her and go towards her dream.
Oleg is a high school student who, together with his friends, engages in petty theft. Olga is the daughter of a military man who controls her every move.
Three friends, three six-year-old children. And only one place in the best school in St. Petersburg. Poor, but smart and arrogant divorcee Tanya, a careerist and the wife of a police major Anya and the beautiful wife of a businessman Lena - for the sake of their beloved child, each of them is ready to risk relationships, friendship and even self—esteem.
The documentary series tells about the history of the new Russian cinema in the context of events that changed Russia forever. The narrative is built in chronological order: from 1992, when the first film was released, where "Russia" was listed in the output data instead of "USSR", to the present. Directors, actors and producers will share their memories of the path in Russian cinema. Among them are Fyodor Bondarchuk, Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeny Tsyganov, Zhora Gooseberry, Pyotr Buslov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Khotinenko, Valeria Guy Germanika, Sergey Selyanov, Egor Konchalovsky and many others.
An ordinary provincial family huddles in a small apartment with carpets on the walls. The head of the family is forced to save on everything in order to feed his wife, son and nephew. Therefore, the appearance of a "Maybach" in the next of kin is an extraordinary event. However, the righteous desire to give relatives a ride in a premium car does not end well: the car ends up in the river, and the grief-stricken family is in debt to the main city bandit, whom even the local police are afraid of.
Anna is a successful lawyer who does not hesitate to tell her longtime friend Larisa that she wants to choose a "husband for three months", since she has a complex project and needs a lightning rod and constant sex. Two ideal options reached the final of her selection: a young technocrat pedant and an aged businessman reveller. Both are successful, both are interesting, and both are passionate about her. However, suddenly She finds out that her life will sparkle with new and not the fact that bright colors. She's going to be a grandmother. The obtuse son returns from England with his Pakistani daughter-in-law. So now Anna chooses not a "husband for three months", but a grandfather for her granddaughter.
16-year-old Andrian lives in Transnistria. At school he has problems with his peers, and at home with his parents. Andrian, who used to sing in the church choir, secretly dreams of ditching everything and going away with a friend to Italy, which he sees as a symbol of freedom from the present hopelessness. But there comes the Holy Week which will forever change his life.
The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.