Ekaterina Semina

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.

Ira is an artist. She lives with her daughter in a shared apartment. Despite her modest circumstances, Ira creates a world for the girl where she feels like a princess. Ira gets a chance to prove herself at a publishing house, but loses the job following a surprise inspection by child protective services. At home, she continues to foster a sense of wonder for her daughter. And the miracle happens: sketches she had found make their mark, and Ira gets another chance.

The routine life of the eleventh "B" of the capital's school ends abruptly with the arrival of the new girl Sonya, who turns out to be completely different from her classmates. They will fight for her attention, they will be afraid of her sincerity, and with her... they will not want to be on the same side?

The protagonist of the series is 30-year-old gamer Igor, who does not think that it is time to grow up. Waking up in the morning in a room where cans of energy drinks and gamepads are scattered is a common thing for him - he does not feel the passage of time and can play around the clock. Any questions and difficulties in his life are usually solved by relatives, he is completely unorganized for an independent life.

Sometimes it seems to parents that their child has been replaced... and two Ivanov families from the south of Russia are simply sure of this: after 16 years, namesakes will find out that their children were confused in the maternity hospital. What if your beloved son is not really your own, but your blood is being raised by strangers? And in a luxury that you never even dreamed of. And how will he accept his new, but painfully poor relatives?

Terminally ill surgeon Kirill finds a job in a clinic where doctors struggle with supernatural phenomena. The only way to survive is to show his best side and convince the new management that the hospital needs him. Kirill plunges into the intricacies of the relationships of people, witches and demons, increasingly doubting that he is able to correctly determine who exactly represents good and who is evil here. The diagnosis is imperfect, and the enemy may be someone who initially did not seem to them. To avoid such mistakes, Kirill and his colleagues will have to spend a lot of time studying the circumstances of patients' illnesses.

In the center of the story are former lovers who have to go a long and dangerous path in order to save their son and find a common language with each other again. A young veterinarian from Moscow, Vasily Bulatov, is kidnapped by a group of terrorists from a Greek hotel and transported to one of the regions of Syria.