Pain Threshold

An employee of the Russian special services goes undercover to Mariupol to identify the curator of the CIA's agent network, who, using recruited youth, is preparing a large-scale terrorist attack in Russia.

A student of the journalism faculty, Danil, goes as a volunteer to the zone of his SMO (Special Military Operation), tired of the hypocrisy of the capital. He is from Sevastopol and knows a little more about the neighboring state than his friends. His anti-war-minded girlfriend Alice, realizing that she is expecting a child, decides to protect her young man from a fatal mistake and goes after him. Finding a loved one in the chaos of war is proving difficult.

An apolitical rapper from Donetsk volunteers to go to Mariupol to rescue his mother from the besieged city.

The city of Nizhnevartovsk was lucky: all the income from the Samotlor deposit settled there. But Shevelevo, which is 50 km away, is devoid of oil, money and infrastructure, and is far from the benefits of civilization. But one almost imperceptible earthquake shifts something in the earth's crust, and the well of local plumber Semyon Plakhov suddenly fills with oil instead of water. Now Semyon has two ways: to give up the plot for a song or somehow master the extraction, processing and marketing. To prove to his wife, who wants to get a divorce and leave him with her son, that he is worth something, the quiet and calm Semyon, together with the local gifted freak Ulyan, develops underground oil production and tries to build "the most honest dishonest business."

Galya Shalamova falls in love with the aspiring blogger Hans Schluse. But the frivolous major quickly gets bored with this novel — it seems to him that Galya stuck to him like chewing gum. Hans finds an unconventional way to break off the relationship. However, Hans did not realize that Galya would not give up everything halfway and get to the truth…

Vika could only be envied: she has a loving family, a career, and a handsome fiance. But in an instant, it all collapses. The girl gets into an accident and gets a severe spinal injury. Doctors' forecasts are sad — most likely, she will not be able to walk on her own. The groom leaves her, and the family is already in a difficult situation — her father has serious heart problems and requires urgent surgery. Against the background of all these events, the girl falls into severe depression. She blames the second participant in the accident, Artyom, who escaped with minor injuries. And he, driven by guilt, decides to help the girl and persuades her to undergo a special rehabilitation course.

In Mariupol, in the spring of 2022, Ukrainian militants blocked all humanitarian corridors for refugees to exit, using people as a "human shield." Thousands of civilians were trapped in the "gray zone" without the possibility of evacuation. Only experienced jeep drivers could take people out of the villages and villages of the "gray zone" on the spring off-road. So ordinary members of the Donetsk club of SUV enthusiasts became volunteers saving people's lives. And although there is only one native of Mariupol among them, Nikolai Solovyov (Zorky) himself, for club members in the city, everyone is "one of their own", and they cannot be abandoned.