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Veta is a student of the acting department of one of the capital's universities. She does not show great promise, but she firmly believes in her dream - to become the best in her field.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Gelya is enjoying being young. Her elder sister Kristina is expecting a second child at the age of just 17, and people are predicting the same fate for 14-year-old Gelya. After going out for a walk with a boy who is besotted with her, she ends up getting drunk on strawberry beer and sitting on his lap while weeping over her own unrequited love. Gelya then returns home, just as her sister is discharged from the maternity hospital.

What did a man do when he first saw a woman? He knocked out her teeth. This is a story about the thirst for love and the impossibility of intimacy, about tenderness and violence.

1990s. Three friends Vova, Mamed and Lyokha go to school and dream, like everyone else in Russia at this time, to open their own business. But first you need money. Everything seemed to be going well, but they were not allowed to the final exams. His Majesty the case in the image of the regional semi-criminal authority Kostik comes to the aid of aspiring entrepreneurs. Kostya's liver has rotted - he needs a new one. Young businessmen get the coveted organ, but only with it, with this organ, it is not so simple.

While visiting the old pub Andrey suddenly gets an opportunity to try to live somebody's else life. Available for rent is a life of famous chef and restaurants owner...

An instructive story about a man who was born to be happy, and about the contrabass that prevented him from doing it.

Zamira's life, already stingy with small joys, is about to be turned upside down. Her husband believes that it is time for the family to leave their familiar place. Faced with a fact, the woman will have to part with her familiar way of life, the center of which was a cow. The closeness between the animal and the man, squeezed in the vice of strong traditions, is about to shrink to the last shred. This means that Zamira will cling to it with a despair unexpected for herself.

Six various novels united in a one movie.

About an actress who does not play, but through a documentary film tries to dot the rest of her life.

Misha finally decided to confess his love to Lena. But the girl's father interrupts him. He decided to take revenge in the old game with his friend. At stake is a huge jackpot, which can reach Lena, and all changes instantly.

A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.

Vano is the son of a Georgian wine maker, but he lives in Moscow from early childhood, and therefore he has completely forgotten family traditions. When luck turns its back on him, and the bandits from the bank demand payment, Vano has to start making the wine in the bath of a rented apartment. Starting to press the grapes, he hears the voices of the ancestors and begins to relate to his work with all his heart. And the young wine begins to respond to him. Soon Vano realizes the wine is magical and it starts to affect his life.

Agree, it is unpleasant when you are not noticed: pushed on the street, ignored in the theater, looked through. As if on purpose! And the pretty girl Elizaveta lives like this for as long as she can remember. Until one day she gets a magic yellow cloak from an unusual studio. Now Liza is finally visible to everyone, but is this really what she wanted?

Three friends, winter, village, night. An ordinary booze turns into a crusade, where everyone carries their own banner of sorrow and pain. In order to forgive all insults in the morning, cuddle up to each other, and, finally, warm up and melt like snowflakes.

Moscow writer ordered a story for the collection. At this time, his wife is going on a business trip to St. Petersburg. Writing imagination awakens jealousy in the main character.

An old teacher suffers from loneliness and insomnia. Long days are passing by, and there is no one who could support and help him. Incidentally, in an online advert of a brothel, he sees a girl's face, that makes his heart beat faster... A lost young woman and a lonely old man meet to change the course of their difficult destinies forever...

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.