Ivan's Happiness. New Stories

The End Of War

Returning from the war, a Captain of the Soviet Army falls into an abandoned well. A casual criminal wants to kill and rob him, but the Captain, doomed to die, must report about this crime even after his death in order for him not to become a missing person.

6.21

A quiet girl gets a job as a maid at a hotel, learning the art of cleaning rooms and the unwritten rules of conduct on the underground floor for service personnel.

Сентиментальное путешествие

A visiting granddaughter tries to get her withdrawn grandmother to open up and encourages her to sort through her old wardrobe. While sorting through the clothes, the grandmother suddenly recalls stories associated with them, and the granddaughter unexpectedly discovers that the dresses, jackets, and scarves hold much more than just family photo archives. Trying on the past, the grandmother begins to subtly change before her granddaughter's eyes, gradually returning to her own youth.

Gag

The young actress gets auditioned by a documentary filmmaker and is forced to immediately play a married couple with an actor who turns out to be her former.

Buses Don't Run Here

Caught in the middle of the road God knows where and trying to leave, Asya finds a bus stop on the outskirts of the forest. But there are no buses running here, the stop is fake, the route was canceled a long time ago, and the stop itself remained here so that elderly people with Alzheimer's from a local nursing home did not go somewhere by accident. They will sit for a while and forget that they wanted to go somewhere. While Asya is waiting for a taxi, an old man appears at the bus stop. An optional conversation ensues between them, which in the most unexpected way will forever change the lives of both.

Zugzwang

The final match of a commercial tournament in classical chess should hold no surprises: the long-term champion annually breaks the bank, easily beating all opponents. However, this year one opponent has prepared an unusual strategy. When posing for the photographers and shaking hands with the intelligent and constrained Champion, the Opponent quietly tells him that he spent the night with the Champion’s wife.