Oleg Ryazantsev

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

Nadya was born with a pathology. She has a large red-burgundy hemangioma on her small face. In the native village Nadya faces the hostility and ridicule of others, furthermore her own family does not accept the girl as she is. Nadya grandmother tries to treat her illness with all religious methods she knows, while Nadya mother constantly dreams of a surgical operation in Moscow. Nadya just wants to be herself. Her only wish is to sing in the choir. After getting into another mess, she ends up in a Moscow hospital, where meets people like her. But even after the physical problem has been resolved nothing changes in her family life.

Katya is smart, modest and diligent, but most importantly, she is very convenient for those around her, which they take advantage of. After the death of her overprotective mother, Katya inherits her mother's late lover Andrey Nikolaevich, who has nowhere else to live, along with the house. However, this is not our heroine's main problem. The secrets that her mother hid from Katya during her life, the mortgage debt, because of which she could lose her home, and the mysterious man to whom her mother has been sending large sums of money for many years - Katya will have to figure all this out, and for the first time in her life - on her own.

Alexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young women dream of winning his attention. However, not even his aristocratic patrons and loyal friends, nor his growing fame can keep him from dueling, getting exiled, and becoming destitute. Only when he meets his true love does he find meaning in life, and his genius develops to make him the legend the world knows today.

The Osipovs are a very ordinary family from Ulyanovsk. Father, mother and son. They are no different from thousands and thousands of other families, except that they are happy. They love each other. The sudden illness of the son drives through them with an asphalt roller. Parents are ready for anything, they lose their home, and sometimes their human form, trying to save their child. At some point, even the mother breaks down. But not the father. The most ordinary person. A provincial carpenter.

On the verge of divorce, Max comes to his ex Irina's to pick up his son Dima for the autumn holidays, but then it turns out that the child has run away from home. The worried parents set off in search in the car of family psychologist/Irina's part-time boyfriend Vlad. Learning that Dima ran away to the village to Max's father, Bata, Max recalls, on the drive, how his parents, during their divorce, sent him to the village, about their life together, his first love and childhood friends.

In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission is to take sex and violence beyond the forbidden level. A game that would let them do that must be banned. One of the Censors is a good guy who hates his bloody job. The other one is a creep. But even the Censors lose their ability to tell the game from the real world.

The life of foreman Ivan Plotnikov has been going downhill for a long time because of his invincible habit of enduring everything. But, by chance finding himself at the Russian bathhouse championship, he learns that this is not a curse at all, but a great talent. Now he will have to fully develop his ability to endure in order to finally believe in himself, regain the respect of his loved ones and compete for the solid cash prize that he so desperately needs.