Kseniya Filippova

A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracized, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty.

A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.

The film almanac brings together 5 stories about young and energetic people who are not afraid to be free and to make mistakes. They live life to the fullest and think they’re ready to do anything for such a life. However, each of them, succumbing to their carelessness, once made the wrong choice. Unable to correct the mistakes of their youth, the characters’ lives become a consequence of those mistakes. They will have to understand how important it is to make choices consciously and take responsibility for the consequences.