Vyacheslav Shekhovtsov

In a small town hospital, former partisan Korotkevich has been lying in bed for 20 years. As a result of brutal torture in the Gestapo, he lost his memory. Psychiatrist Kondakov succeeds in treating Korotkevich, and his memory returns. Now, with Korotkevich's help, it becomes possible to expose the traitors who betrayed and destroyed the partisan squad during the war.

Lyusya, a modest young woman, lives with her mother and works as a prompter at a theater. She is in love with Maskov, a brilliant tenor—though, in truth, everyone is in love with him, as he is a star. Lyusya’s mother worries deeply about her 28-year-old daughter and looks for a way to secretly introduce her to someone else—someone who might capture her heart and help her forget her idol. Then, on New Year’s Eve, such a candidate appears. However, things do not unfold at all as the mother had planned, and Lyusya ends up meeting someone entirely different...

Asya and Gennady’s happy family is shattered overnight when their five-year-old son, Antoshka, dies in a devastating fire. The tragedy robs Asya of any sense of purpose. A deep depression leads to divorce and a self-destructive spiral. Asya wants to take her own life. But a year after her son’s death, hope suddenly appears. She meets a firefighter, Nikolai, who tells her that no remains of her son were found in the ashes. Asya clings desperately to this fragile hope—she wants to believe Antoshka is alive. But if so, where is her boy? No one but Asya believes it. Only Nikolai reaches out to help the despairing woman.