Sergey Gorodnichy

In 2041, the USSR and China create a new techno-socialist superpower, where the main weapon is a person united with AI. Police captain Mark Sokolov hides inside himself Adele - an artificial intelligence fused with his brain since infancy. Investigating a murder, Mark faces betrayal, state secrets and an internal struggle for control over his own body and the fate of humanity.

Journalist Kristina is filming a documentary about a case of domestic violence in an old high-rise building. But it turns out that these walls hold many secrets, because evil has settled in the house.

One morning, the criminal authority Dad convenes three "sons" and tells the latest news. Everyone remembers how three years ago, the keeper of the regional communal Mule ran away, taking the money. Also, everyone remembers how he was found, punished and buried. And the news is like this. Yesterday Mulya, alive and well, was seen in three cities at once: St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Rostov. Dad sends "sons" to these cities to scout out what's what. For each of them, the journey will not be the easiest.

The action unfolds in our days, in the small Volga town of Kalinov, where nothing has changed since the days of Alexander Ostrovsky’s classical play: if any rays of light do appear in the dark empire, then they are doomed to perish quietly in the general absurdity and ignorance, or shine brightly as a token of protest against lie and tyranny. The young, married girl Katerina Kabanova leads a happy life — at first sight. Only her mother-in-law Kabanikha constantly nags her and does not allow her to take things easy. Her weak-willed husband Tikhon loves his wife, but he always sides with his powerful mother. When Katerina unexpectedly falls in love with Boris, the young relative of the town’s mayor, she finds that he also has tender feelings for her…

Among schoolchildren there is a legend about the so-called lost place, according to which everyone who buys a movie ticket to this place is waiting for death. None of the guys believe in it, but a series of brutal murders makes young people think, as a result of which they begin their own investigation.

Katya Orlova and Lech Danilin met in a provincial Russian city and got married on the same day. He is an ordinary guy, and she is a refined "billionaire's daughter" who grew up in London and lost her parents in a car accident. Their relationship is a struggle of opposites.

After wandering around the world for a long time, Vladimir Dubrovsky returns to the Russian Empire with a new name and a new face, now he is a mysterious foreigner — Don Diego de la Vega. Arriving in Kistenevka, Dubrovsky sees that the arbitrariness of the landlords reigns in his native lands, and robbers are rampaging on the roads, hiding behind the name of Dubrovsky. There, the hero meets his former lover Masha and finds himself embroiled in a dangerous game against the family of the cruel Kirila Petrovich Troekurov, with whom Dubrovsky has old scores.