Igor Tolstikov

Talented as a child but completely lost in her thirties, Vasya suddenly realizes she's heading for rock bottom and has no strength to escape. Malvina, an imaginary friend from childhood, comes to his aid, a freakish woman with purple hair and a quirky sense of humor. Malvina pushes Vasya to find her childhood love, Stasik. Vasya will go through a long journey and understand what went wrong in her life, but most importantly, she will learn why Malvina appeared.

Nadya was born with a pathology. She has a large red-burgundy hemangioma on her small face. In the native village Nadya faces the hostility and ridicule of others, furthermore her own family does not accept the girl as she is. Nadya grandmother tries to treat her illness with all religious methods she knows, while Nadya mother constantly dreams of a surgical operation in Moscow. Nadya just wants to be herself. Her only wish is to sing in the choir. After getting into another mess, she ends up in a Moscow hospital, where meets people like her. But even after the physical problem has been resolved nothing changes in her family life.

Fedya, a docile, homebody, lives an ordinary life with his mother. He enjoys robotics and endures harassment in the neighborhood from the local "authority," Skvortsov. After rescuing a stray kitten, Fedya meets the cunning and self-assured street kid Bogdan. Thanks to him, he infuriates Skvortsov and engages him in a duel.

The village idiot lives in a hut with his sick mother. His neighbors are the Jewish family of the local blacksmith Mendel, and the guy is secretly in love with his youngest daughter Sonya.

Yasha is a spirited village boy raised by strict parents whose only escape from boredom is his passion for fishing. He deeply dreams of catching the legendary "King Fish" (Tsar-fish). The arrival of his city cousin, Volodya, changes his plans when Volodya learns about the myth and begs to join the morning trip, leading the two boys to a fateful encounter by the river. Note: Based on the classic 1954 Soviet short story "Tikhoe Utro" by acclaimed author Yuri Kazakov.