Svetlana Sayagova

Five unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.

During the construction of the metropolitan metro, workers discover a precious salary, which proves that the legendary Library of Ivan the Terrible exists. But the find turns out to be forgotten for many years, and already in our time it falls into the hands of the unsuspecting Ilya. Now his life is in danger, because powerful forces are hunting for an ancient artifact.

Varya has chosen, as they say, a not entirely female profession: she wants to become a firefighter. The girl comes for some work experience to a fire brigade where she must prove to everybody that she is worthy of being there.

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.

If the whole world is lying, why not do the same? So thinks Yegor - the protagonist of the film. But the reality all the time offers a choice: continue to lie or face the truth.

Igor Tsaplin wants to be elected for a third term and PR team already familiar to us will help him.

A mother wants to cure her teenage daughter, who has not spoken for several years. To do this, she takes her to the old healer in the forest. However, as a result, the mother has to rescue her daughter from the strange world of the Others, where everyone lives with their mouths sewn shut.

A loser actor makes a desperate attempt to get cast on a project, following the common stereotypes about how things work in the film industry. The things turn out to be more complicated than he even expected.

The insecure girl Sasha is lying to her family that she is dating handsome Cyril, although he is just her running coach, with whom she is afraid to even speak. Sister Pasha's husband knows the truth, but he has enough of his own problems - he and his wife have not had sex for a year. Having signed up for running therapy together, Sasha and Pasha decide that they can get away from problems together.

Fate brings two girls together at the very beginning of their lives. Seven-year-old Lyubka, growing up among street thieves, distracts the attention of a rich family at the train station, and at that moment a suitcase is stolen from them. After this incident, the "little robber" often imagines herself in the place of a well-dressed girl, with mom, dad and a beautiful doll in her arms.

On the threshold of her sixtieth birthday, Tatyana Sergeevna unexpectedly faces a past that she has always tried to forget. It makes her look back and realize what kind of life she lived.

The year is 2140. Society has undergone profound change and is now run as a matriarchy, thus removing its reliance on men. Two Hills is one of the communities founded by this new order. It is a place of perfection, where there is harmony rather than conflict, science and reason prevail and the environment is protected and respected. One of its inhabitants is the history teacher, Rada. On her birthday she takes her students on a guided tour of a special area outside of Two Hills, a place where the so-called “primates” live. The "primates" are men (and a handful of women) who have chosen to live beyond female control. However, the tranquillity of Rada’s perfectly arranged female-centric world comes under threat when she meets the young "primate", Hera. It’s a classic girl-meets-boy story, in a world where the rules have fundamentally changed.

Corrupt official Ivan Never hides on a Moscow–Vladivostok flight, but when the real pilot dies, chaos erupts as he faces angry ex-accomplices, clueless substitutes, and even bees loose in the cabin.

An ordinary provincial family huddles in a small apartment with carpets on the walls. The head of the family is forced to save on everything in order to feed his wife, son and nephew. Therefore, the appearance of a "Maybach" in the next of kin is an extraordinary event. However, the righteous desire to give relatives a ride in a premium car does not end well: the car ends up in the river, and the grief-stricken family is in debt to the main city bandit, whom even the local police are afraid of.

The year is 1987. After the birth of his daughter, Alexander Shishinin, a former employee of the Saratov Regional Agricultural Academy, decides to drastically change his life and do what he always dreamed of — producing a musical group. He meets the talented composer Vitaly Okorokov. Together, they literally find the first vocalists on the street: Tatiana Ivanova, Alena Apina and assemble the first female group in the USSR.

A story about a juvenile inspector who was left by his wife and now is raising a teenage daughter alone. In order to establish a better relationship with her, he decides to stalk her using a social media account that actually belongs to a young man he has been working with. This ‘fathers and sons’ story about today’s teenagers and the midlife crisis.

Irina Vladimirovna seems to dote on her son and Wife, but her guardianship is suffocatingly excessive: the relationship is so strained that she has to visit a family psychologist. At one of the receptions, the specialist suggests that the woman begin the separation process with the child. Irina Vladimirovna just has a second apartment, which is now rented to tourists, where Zhenya could move, and there, you see, some kind of social life will be adjusted, since one of the two rooms will still be put up for daily rent. In a new place, Zhenya immediately meets a neighbor girl, Dasha.

After the 39-year—old Mile is abandoned by a sponsor, she decides that she will earn by becoming a blogger - of course, popular. To do this, she hires two 20-year—old girls, Dasha and Varya, who know everything about social media promotion. Mile sets the girls the task of having a million subscribers by the end of the month. Varya and Dasha realize that the task is almost impossible, but Milya convinces them that she is ready for anything and promises a hefty fee. The girls agree, not yet imagining what they are getting into…

By the age of thirty, Olesya had already answered two age-old questions: "Who is to blame? — That's it!" and "What should I do? — to take revenge." To take revenge on your stuffy fiance, boring colleagues, a mother who constantly demands grandchildren, and in general everyone who pisses you off. But they infuriate everyone. On the advice of Fai's best friend, Olesya joined the psychological marathon "Wish Card" and took her soul away, coming up with a terrible revenge for everyone. And it seems to be relieved already… But suddenly the wishes begin to come true. And now the best friend with the perfect figure is gaining weight, a helpless colleague is running around the office with a stapler in a soft place, and a beloved mother is expecting a child in her seventies. And this is just the beginning! Ahead is the most sophisticated punishment that she has prepared for her fiance. Olesya is shocked and realizes that it is necessary to stop the cursed wish card. But how?