Vladimir Kreps

Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.

1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.

After a shy bank employee helps to catch two robbers he becomes a totally different person.

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

Thirty-year-old captain of the hockey team Duganov, a famous and experienced player, decides to fight for the sporting longevity of "old men" like him. Acutely experiencing a quarrel with his favorite girl, Duganov achieves participation in the decisive final match between the two strongest teams and achieves victory.

Spring of 1917. Soldiers of the former Wild Division are returning to their villages. Anzor, a footman of Prince Naurbek, commander of the Kabarda regiment, finds poverty and ruin at home - his mother and many other villagers have fallen into bondage debts to Princess Zhansurat. Anzor goes to the prince and asks him to return his land - after all, he shielded Naurbek from enemy bullets in battle. Having received a handful of millet, Anzor returns to his place. Subsequent meetings with the Bolsheviks Kantemir and Mashuko, and then with Kirov himself, convince Anzor of the necessity to fight against the princes.