Elena Naumkina

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

A short film based on the story by Valentin Rasputin.

After researcher Yuri Sergeev fails to report to work, local police officer Ilya Sergeev opens an investigation into his disappearance.

Two cash collectors are found burned with their car but the bag is missing. Two detectives - Aleksandr Sanin and Aleksey Tulyakov are investigating the crime.

While waiting for her first child, young teacher Masha Pavlova suddenly decides that her husband does not understand her, and therefore does not respect her interests. Having ceased to understand each other, the couple divorced. Nikolai, who once loved her but is now divorced and clearly suffering from loneliness, reappears in her life.

For more than six months, Budulay, who had been brutally beaten by gangsters, had no memory. A chance encounter with his son Vanya, who had learned from his mother that his real father was Budulay, restored the boy's memory.

The story of Kolya Fedotov, a student at the very same vocational school where Ksenia, Sarantsev, and Semyon Zolotov—who have rented a wooden cottage on Sirenevaya Street for the summer—work as instructors. Due to a conflict with his father, the boy leaves his family home. The ability to understand him and truly help him defines the moral character of each of the film’s characters—and, above all, that of Nadezhda Kazimirovna, the owner of the old house.