Mikhail August

In the interweaving of five stories, the New Year's magician himself ceases to believe in miracles, because burdened with life and immersed in work, people completely forget about the holiday. He takes serious action and sells his suit to a simple guy who has long since lost his sense of "New Year's magic". By leaving his position as a magician, Santa deprives people not only of a festive mood, but also of snow that could contribute to this. But contrary to his views on the hopelessness of the modern generation, people notice the changes and become the creators of a real New Year's miracle on their own.

Dina, a former figure skating star, works as a coach in a boarding school for problematic children when she meets Lada - a new and very talented girl.

Suffering from a fatal malady as a child the future great physicist, Nikola Tesla, promised his parents that he would recover under the sole condition...if they allowed him to become an engineer. And he kept his promise. Never ending yearning for knowledge, research practice, creative endeavor, discoveries that have unfixed all established notions - that's what was the characteristic of the great physicist. Nikola Tesla would always remain a scientist whose life was a sort of mystification rather than pure reality.

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Young Kyiv resident Semen Dakhno lived quietly and modestly with his parents in an old house on Andriivskyi Uzviz. But one day, while working as an extra on a film set, he accidentally damaged the wing of a jeep belonging to a prominent businessman and criminal authority, Yaroslav Karpik. To avoid serious trouble, Semen is now forced to work for Karpik, becoming the director of a front company through which the mafia plans to steal millions of dollars and then liquidate both the company itself and all its employees. But Semen and Lika, a girl who works as an accountant at the company, disagree with this state of affairs. They decide to ruin the criminals' plans, and now they face three main tasks: to expose Karpik and his gang while staying alive, and... to confess their love to each other in time.

A man owes money to a local businessman, so in order to pay off his debt, he agrees to persuade his sister to spend the night with the mayor.