The author's monologue addressed to his little son Alyosha.
In the past, Soviet prima ballerina and now world-renowned choreographer Ruta Myers returns to the country after almost 40 years to stage a performance at the country's main ballet theater. Ruta is forced to rebuild relationships with friends and enemies, who have become key people in the Russian ballet over the past time, but most importantly — with the artistic director of the theater Andrei Pronin and his family. They were once a couple, and now old feelings and old resentments flare up with renewed vigor. A lot of money, ambitions, and a career are at stake — Ruta, despite all her efforts, finds herself in the epicenter of passions and intrigues very far from the world of art.
The relationship between the spouses Vika and Max has been cold for a long time, Max is not ready to lose Vika, so he is looking for different ways to return the former intimacy to the relationship with Vika. Max is even ready to have a child, but, unfortunately, he is infertile.
The relationship between the spouses Vika and Max has been cold for a long time, Max is not ready to lose Vika, so he is looking for different ways to return the former intimacy to the relationship with Vika. Max is even ready to have a child, but, unfortunately, he is infertile.
Artyom is 15 years old. This is the same age when you are not an adult, but also not small. It was in this, the last summer of childhood, that everything fell on Artyom at once: the betrayal of his father, who remained abroad after the tour, first love, friendship forever and quarrel forever. Artyom has only a skateboard - this is how in the 80s in the USSR they called skate, which Soviet teenagers had just begun to learn about. Now Artyom needs only one thing: by all means to win in street competitions.
40-year-old Vika and Max, after 15 years of marriage, seem to have become one. In their ideal apartment with a designer renovation, only one thing is missing — a child. Everything changes on one fateful evening, when a friend Pasha, who returned from several years of living in Moscow, comes to visit the couple with a new friend Alice. After several glasses of wine, Max confesses to a friend that the couple wants to have a child, but he himself cannot have children, whereas Vika is completely healthy. Having learned the secret of new acquaintances, Alice, without thinking twice, offers Pasha to become a sperm donor and help out friends. This awkward offer should change their lives forever.
Ilya stutters a lot, and this interferes with everything - his personal life, communication with the child, work. In desperation, he enrolls in the course of the famous doctor Cherkasova, a guru in his field, whom patients consider a magician and wizard. There he meets new friends and a new love - a young girl Vera. But it turns out that Cherkasova herself likes Ilya, and she intends to win him over.
In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the CIA.