The Nail

One day in the life of the girl Lena, looking for reasons (not) to get acquainted with men, (not) to have a family and children, (not) to love.

Klim Shipenko is making a film about Lomonosov starring Pavel Derevyanko. But the actor is overtaken by a creative crisis, and for inspiration he goes to the homeland of the scientist whom he sees in his fantasies. Pavel settles in the house of the Belovs, whose head Egor earns by physical labor. The appearance of Derevyanko changes the usual way of life of the locals: Egor is afraid of losing his wife Masha, their daughter Polina falls in love with a celebrity, and deputy Kholmogor builds an election campaign with the help of a star.

Minsk, August 2020. Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of peaceful protests. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people are victims of police brutality.

An ordinary chocolate factory worker begins to hear the voices of extraterrestrial civilizations, and habitual tenor of her life starts changing rapidly.

An evening at the film institute brings two strangers together in a darkened classroom: Olga, a professor giving a lecture on the French New Wave, and Oleg, an electrician fixing a broken fuse. Their casual conversation quickly escalates into an argument about freedom and prohibition.

The families of the Myasnikovs and Semenovs, whose children are in love with each other, come together to celebrate the New Year. There is only one problem: some are avid meat-eaters, and the second are convinced vegetarians. What absurd and ridiculous situations can a meeting of such different, but at the same time close people lead to?