Government official Victor Letayev oversees road construction in the Perm region. He is a cynical kind, accustomed to always getting things done, and getting them done his way. He loves his job, he is good at it, and he has zero interest in anything else. His motto is, “I used to chop firewood for a living. Everyone needs firewood; you can’t heat a home with art or culture.” Victor’s attitude changes when art and culture become areas of priority for his region’s development. Now, in order to keep his job, Victor has to study Perm region’s cultural heritage. Hoping to make things easier for himself, he takes lessons from art historian Marina. Will she succeed in imposing cultural awareness on a pragmatic government functionary?
The plot centers on a mining family. The time of events falls on the difficult 90s. The heroes get into a difficult life and try to find the strength to endure the trials.
The provincial football team Rodina loses funding at the height of the season and crashes out of the championship because its owner, the mayor of the city, decides to sell the club. For the sake of salvation, the guys make a deal with a local authority and agree to transport contraband to China. But everything does not go according to plan, and the players become debtors of authority, hide from the Chinese mafia, and the team captain suddenly becomes the owner of the club.
A young fraudster Vitalik gets to work in a nursing home to hide from his pursuers. He treats his job only as a way to ride out the storm and earn extra money from the elderly. Soon Vitalik realizes that the residents of the nursing home are real old robbers with incredible destinies. Gradually, he changes his attitude towards these people. From perceiving them as "obsolete material", he gets into their views on life, experiences, understands that in their hearts they continue to be young, just like him. Now he wants to be needed and change his life, although it will cost him dearly.
A young fraudster Vitalik gets to work in a nursing home to hide from his pursuers. He treats his job only as a way to ride out the storm and earn extra money from the elderly. Soon Vitalik realizes that the residents of the nursing home are real old robbers with incredible destinies. Gradually, he changes his attitude towards these people. From perceiving them as "obsolete material", he gets into their views on life, experiences, understands that in their hearts they continue to be young, just like him. Now he wants to be needed and change his life, although it will cost him dearly.
The action takes place from April to December 1986. The Ukrainian department of the KGB of the USSR becomes aware of the interest shown by foreign intelligence services in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. To establish the whereabouts of an experienced CIA officer, Albert Lenz, who is suspected of espionage, on the territory of Pripyat, Lieutenant Colonel of military counterintelligence Andrey Nikolaev arrives in the city.