Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Natasha Titrova, who came from Tomsk, has disappeared without a trace and mysteriously.
A touching story of the relationship between two teenagers who accidentally met in besieged Leningrad. Masha and Sergey are fighting hunger and death. She reads the book about the Nutcracker and the Mouse King over and over again, and the words of this story help her to be stronger, and he plays his favorite piano. The film is filled with soft sadness. The unique technique of combining animation and staged filming with the participation of actors gives the theme of war and the blockade amazing notes of authenticity of memories.
The story is about a girl who was carrying bread to an old neighbor. A film from the almanac "Blockade destinies"
During an air raid the girl accidentally loses the daily bread ration. A strange old woman picks it up. the woman is death herself carrying scissors which she uses to cut the thread of life of people dying in the besieged city. but at the last moment death saves the girl.
