Alone Anthology

The mother sent the teenager to learn how to swim with a good trainer. After the first classes, the boy staged a local revolution in the pool. It seemed more important to resist than to learn how to swim.

*Zoo* is a film about what happens when a person takes responsibility for another living being. It is about the people who choose this work—once—and stay forever. About animals that fell victim to inhumane treatment but were saved within the zoo. And about how the world increasingly needs places like this—places where every life is priceless.

Five short films where reality and modern characters are presented in unusual genre settings. In the comedy "Good Afternoon", the courier witnesses an unpredictable family quarrel. "Africa" is the story of a rapidly maturing girl's return to her eccentric and eternally young mother. "Update/Delete" will record the existence of an ordinary passerby in the lenses of several cameras throughout the day, and the nascent revolutionary spirit in the drama "Aquathlon" will turn out tragically. In the "House on the Head of a Clausewertz", a house begins to grow on the head of a lonely person.

Waffle works in an emergency crew that fixes leaks in hot water pipes. He has a unique sense of hearing and can precisely locate a leak. During yet another descent into the depths, Waffle hears a strange voice.

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."