Nikolai Maletsky

A family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties.

A conflict between the football team's coach and its best players, Bushuev and Milenkov, led to the players leaving the team. Milenkov returned to the research institute, while Bushuev moved to a provincial town, became a coach, and, basing his training on a scientific approach to the game, achieved great success in a short period of time...

The story of a girl who recently graduated from school and works as a projectionist. Her ideas about life are taken from films starring Greta Garbo, romantic literature, and advice from her practical friend. This "explosive mixture" prevents her from hearing herself and causes her to act rashly.

After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.

Journalist Tamara Malysheva is deeply unhappy in her personal life with her alcoholic husband, Andrey. The editorial office sends Tamara to a small Ukrainian village to investigate the reasons why a soldier who had just come out of the army stabbed his mother-in-law with an axe and the 11 years of strict prison sentence he received for it. There she meets Yuriy, a man who has been "waiting for her all her life" and with whom she falls in love without looking back. Further events develop.