Not for the River

After his long-lost son is suddenly thrust back into his life, a charismatic con artist takes to the road with his two wives, swindling everyone they encounter along their path.

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.

From odd situations to complicated emotions, various obstacles test a group of people in their pursuits of true love in this collection of stories.

A love story between young and romantic girl from Minsk and a successful programmer from Moscow.

Two women meet by happenstance traveling from Moscow to Perm. After their flight is delayed, Aleksandra and Zhenia spend a night in Moscow that turns out to be full of unforeseeable adventures.

The middle-aged Valya is waiting for the arrival of her groom, whom she met through correspondence. Valya prepares for the meeting: she bakes pies, buys linen, quarrels with her old mother, and argues with the neighbours from the village. The villagers sceptically look on her marriage to a man who has been released from prison...

In Kyrgyzstan village school old teacher of Russian language was change to a young teacher of Turkish language. But old man doesn't give up, he is completely in love with Russian culture and he desperately wants children to learn the language. A lot of funny and sad at the same time situations happens to him on the way fighting for his love.

Exactly five stories from different parts of Russia - from Arkhangelsk to Sakhalin. The modern romantic comedy "Firefly" was filmed in Severodvinsk. The musical film “Not for the River” from Arkhangelsk is dedicated to the ability to establish strong, like sea knots, relationships. The Kazan traffic police officer on duty on the highway, opening the trunk of a stopped car, changes his life forever (“Lost Path”). The heroine of the novel "Tamara" from Krasnoyarsk, showing a hard character in her work, will be helpless in her personal life. The Sakhalin short film "In the arms of the sea" in a poetic manner tells the story of true friendship and farewell.