Капитолина Соболь

To repay the debt to the most influential businessman in Sochi, the owner of a regional cinema chain is filming a blockbuster with doubles of famous Hollywood actors.

Marfa returns with her son to the Pacific island where she grew up and where her father worked as a lighthouse keeper. At the same time, her half-brother Ilya appears on the island, whom Marfa has not seen for many years. Marfa and Ilya are connected by a dark secret. But no matter how much they try to escape from the past, it overtakes them in the form of a mysterious whale cruising off the coast of the island and as if trying to convey something to Marfa.

The Gerasimov family is big and friendly. Pavel is an architect, father of five children, and dreams of a sixth. The only thing that hinders happiness is the cramped Moscow apartment where the characters live. Inspired by this pain, Pavel is developing a residential complex for large families. Developer Lev Borisovich likes the idea of the Ark residential complex, but only as a way to draw attention to the project. This puts Pavel in a difficult dilemma: to increase his living space by deceiving poor people like him, or to go into conflict with a very serious person. The family realizes that they are not capable of dealing with conscience, sells the apartment and leaves the city. They settle in the old house where Pavel's ancestors lived, and decide to build their own "Ark" with their own hands. This choice turns the family's life into a real adventure, revealing to them the power of a large, close-knit family and each of its members individually.