Andrei Grinevich

A mountain Daghestani village of our time. Though the civilization reached these places, but traditions and customs consolidated their grip on local folks minds. An old respectable mountain-dweller, a well-educated person in looks, the Palace of Culture director, a father of the young girl, who if ready for marriage, is no exception. According to the old custom a womans parents have to find a well-off groom and get bride-money. And they have an appropriate groom a respected mechanical engineer from a canning plant. But the girl destroys all their harmonious plans, falling in love with a simple driver.

A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.

A young investigator undertakes to investigate another robbery. The elements of crime are obvious: a fair amount was stolen from the plant’s cash register. The investigator has two suspects — a cashier and a career criminal.

The train waitress decides not to travel around the world anymore, but to raise her son from boarding school and be with her loved one, the local theater director in native Ferzinki.

In the port of Danzig, the military transport Tyrol is preparing to leave, on board which are selected SS units and seventy naval crews. The commander of the Soviet submarine "S-31", which received serious damage, receives the task of detecting and attacking enemy transport...

The film is dedicated to the heroines of Ostrovsky’s plays—wives, cooks, actresses, matchmakers. For the most part, these are composite characters, but many of them have real-life prototypes. The author was a keen observer and recorded everything interesting in his diary. This is how the gallery of images from his native Zamoskvorechye, where Ostrovsky was born, came into being. Later, after traveling along the Volga, portraits of residents from small towns along the river were added. Alexander Nikolaevich never overlooked the details. When the playwright described daily life, the details of clothing, or the manner of speaking of a character, the hero would literally come to life.

Fifteen year old gifted teenager Ruslan Chutko longs to do good and help the police to identify offenses under the pseudonym Plumbum. Plumbum decides in a single provincial town to eradicate the evil. However, in his interest of being a fighter against evil he goes far beyond what is permitted in a children's play and ends up ruthlessly invading people's lives.

At the contest "Moscow Beauties", journalist Sergey Kayumov meets the main contender - Masha Malinina. Her life is not much different from the life of her rivals. Without much thought, Masha uses a chance that promises to change her fate - and becomes a victim of a mafia group...