Yevgeni Pimenov

Unlucky university teacher Valentin finds an outlet in leading a student film club, where he makes amateur films with young talents. Valentin believes that a bad streak cannot last forever and that he will definitely get lucky someday. Fate favors the unlucky but talented teacher, and Kirill Kyaro agrees to take part in his new film. While Valentin tries his best to grab luck by the tail, the students of the film club grow up, find themselves and make important life discoveries.

A talented surgeon becomes a target of various forces after inventing a new organs transplantation technique.

The popular TV journalist Sergei Kupriyanov recently became the country's main television personality and began to make his own program. But success, money, and fame cannot fill the void in a marriage relationship. Sergei's wife Irina lacks his love and warmth, and Sergei himself is looking for novelty, which he finds in the arms of his charming colleague Lena when Irina leaves for St. Petersburg.

The family broke up many years ago. Unable to withstand the hardships of life in the Far North, Elena returned to her hometown with a small child. After 16 years, Sergei comes to congratulate his daughter Yulia, whom he has not seen for all these years, on her coming of age. As a gift he brings a bear skin, and with it the unspent paternal love. But Yulia is in no hurry to rejoice at the sudden appearance of a man who is a stranger to her....

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.