Olga Azhnakina

The beginning of the 2000s. New realities, instant adaptation to the proposed circumstances, enchanting careers, unexpected unknown professions... All this could have happened only at the turn of the century, when the Soviet system instantly went out of fashion, replaced by the lightning invasion of the Western world in a grotesque parody. The main character of the film is an inconspicuous girl Nadezhda Strakhova. Nadezhda, oddly enough, is married. Her husband, Vitalik, a provincial, married a childless Nadezhda for the sake of a Moscow residence permit and a typical "Khrushchev" on the outskirts of Moscow. Nadezhda works two jobs to support her small family: in the mornings in the district library and in the evenings in the theater wardrobe. One day her life changes dramatically.

On his son's birthday, Kolya gives an unexpected and strange gift, which becomes fateful in the child's life.

One day in the life of an ambulance paramedic, a teacher, a factory worker, a scientist, a tram driver and a firefighter — those who do what they love and for whom treating, teaching, saving people is not just a job, but a way of life.