Reserve

A story about a very special summer in a life of twelve years old Mishka.

A small Russian town is prospering, because it's main industry is the chocolate factory. But this kind of prosperity comes at a very high price. Everybody in this town is eating plenty of chocolate, and everyone is suffering from diabetes. There is a thick smell of chocolate in the air, and the local river has brown water, that is filthy with chocolate pollution. So people decided to put an end to their suffering and to shut the chocolate factory down. But the chocolate business is so lucrative, that the factory is expanding, and rapidly increasing the production of chocolate. Conscious citizens are terrified, and an anti-chocolate riot is brewing.

1927. A retired Red Army commander Constantine Vorontsov is appointed a Criminal Investigation Department head in a principal city of province. An experienced repeater named Korney shows up in the city. Thanks to a successfully performed operation a place of a local thieves gathering place is now known. But Korney, foreboding of an ambush, changes the place at the last moment. Vorontsov doesnt have enough time to warn all his colleagues and heads for the thieves meeting by his own.

Aviation engineer Viktor Rosanov dreams of getting behind the controls of an airplane - he is sure that this is the only way he can realize his capabilities. The plant's management sends Rosanov to the North and instructs him to prepare a new aircraft for flights. He performs the task brilliantly, and when he returns, he is appointed head of the airport and is included in the flight crew lists. But now Victor is not sure that heaven is the only way of his life.

When you are 19 years old, you want to fall in love, walk, spend nights in frivolous conversations. All this is done by our heroine Lisa. But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that she has to earn her own living and take care of two paralyzed old men. And there is not a single person nearby to lean on. And Lisa lives in the world-famous town of Karabash, in an ecological disaster zone.

After the birth of the sixth child, the father left for another woman. The core of the family was the elder sister Natasha, herself a person of dramatic fate.

This is a film about two women. Both have lost their loved ones. One in the Great Patriotic War, the other in the Afghan War. Each fate released only a few days of happiness. But both carried their love and loyalty through life. Together with them, we reread letters from the front and relive the happiness of love and the bitterness of loss.