Konstantin Telegin

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Film director Misha meets an elderly woman and her granddaughter. He is friends with the first woman, and in love with the second. Both of them become his muses and engage in a struggle for influence over him. And nothing inspires an artist like conflict. Manic curiosity draws Misha further and further, into the very core of each woman’s personality.