Anastasiya Gorodentseva

August 1980. The Soviet authorities are preparing Moscow for the Olympic Games and expelling unreliable citizens from the city. One such citizen is the talented cellist Arseny Chaika, who ends up in the village of Protasovo with his rabbit. Meanwhile, in Moscow, foreign journalist William Smith is looking for him for an interview.

The war is over, but instead of happiness and joy Alexei Ivanov feels bitterness and fear. We have to go home, but do his children remember him, whom he left as kids?

Fate brings two girls together at the very beginning of their lives. Seven-year-old Lyubka, growing up among street thieves, distracts the attention of a rich family at the train station, and at that moment a suitcase is stolen from them. After this incident, the "little robber" often imagines herself in the place of a well-dressed girl, with mom, dad and a beautiful doll in her arms.

On June 21, 1941, the artists of the traveling circus tent under the direction of the famous hypnotist Andrei Belov, who performs under the pseudonym the Great Armando, give their first performance in a small Latvian town. During the performance of the number under the dome, Belov's wife, the aerial equilibrist Elsa, sees a little girl among the audience, meets her eyes, loses her balance and falls into the arena. This girl is a copy of Masha, the daughter of Elsa and Belov, who died five years ago.