March 1944. At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory is overshadowed by a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scant testimony of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time they leave portraits of the dead at the crime scene. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Death's Head", and its leader was called an Artist.
Danya is coming from the provinces to Moscow. He dreams of conquering the capital and becoming a popular stand-up artist. The young man has nothing but ambitions behind his soul, but he needs to live somewhere right now, and he rents a room from Vyacheslav Sokolov, a grumpy, offended old man. And although the relationship between Danya and Vyacheslav cannot be called rosy, as it turns out, they have more in common than one might assume. By a strange coincidence, Sokolov was a popular Soviet satirist in the past.
The head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Butovo region, Makarov, is completely replaced by the personnel as a result of a conflict with the leadership. Instead of experienced male cops, four young students are singled out.
Three boxers from Chelyabinsk decide to earn extra money at the Moscow tournament on fights without rules before flying to the World Championship. After learning about the violation of the sports regime, the head coach excludes them from the national team. The guys are eating sadly in a restaurant, discussing the inglorious homecoming. In the same institution, a business dinner of a well-known Moscow lawyer is held, with the protection of which, through no fault of the guys, a conflict ensues. Boxers demonstrate their skills and naturally end up in the police. They face imprisonment. However, the lawyer offers a deal: become his bodyguards or go to jail. The brave trio decides to change their tracksuits to classic ones.
Budding metropolitan investigator Oleg Khlebnikov kills a criminal during detention. Oleg is sure that the villains should be punished not only by the court. The deceased turns out to be a media person, and in order to hush up the scandal, his death is called an accident, and Khlebnikov is sent to the taiga city to sit out the watch, and soon return to Moscow. It won't work on a quiet business trip.
The beginning of the 2000s, a small village on the highway leading to Moscow. The colorful cafe "Cuba" is located here, and Tamara, strong and sharp-tongued, manages it.
After the fight with Dagestanis, the novice rapper Bonus, along with his friend, drug addict and drug dealer Gashik, must disappear for several weeks from the home village of Volodarovka, which is located in the Astrakhan region. They decide to go to Moscow, where Gashik will try to become the driver of the businessman’s son, and Bonus - to become a rap artist.
When genetic diversity became minimal and humanity was on the verge of extinction, the Heritage program was launched, designed to replenish the population. It was headed by bioengineers Alexander and Elizabeth Gordeev and geneticist Peter Sergeevich. A group of scientists spent a hundred years in cryogenic sleep in order to thaw healthy embryos in the future. However, scientists could not imagine what the first generation of new people and the last hope of mankind would turn out to be.
Fifty-year-old welder Ignat, who has a unique eye to establish relations with his stepson Sanya, agrees to join an esports team of teenagers aged 15-17. Unexpectedly, an aged player wins an online shooter tournament and becomes a local star, a hero of Internet publications. But for the team members, he is not just a "meme" uncle, but a real mentor, friend and cyber dad. Ignat gets to know the life of teenagers from the inside, helps to solve their problems: where with advice, where with his example. He teaches guys and learns a lot from them himself.
About the life of different generations of one big family. Timofey and Yulia are raising two children, Vadik and Olya are just preparing for the arrival of their first child, and teenager Pasha lives with his parents and begins to taste adult life. All of them face problems and experience joys that make up the life of a family.
An ordinary provincial family huddles in a small apartment with carpets on the walls. The head of the family is forced to save on everything in order to feed his wife, son and nephew. Therefore, the appearance of a "Maybach" in the next of kin is an extraordinary event. However, the righteous desire to give relatives a ride in a premium car does not end well: the car ends up in the river, and the grief-stricken family is in debt to the main city bandit, whom even the local police are afraid of.
Zhora, along with his parents, moves to another city, where he cannot establish relations with classmates in any way, and teachers openly find fault with him. Tired of enduring total injustice, Zhora decides to fight it, and in a non-standard way: a student puts a helmet with a camera mounted on his head and begins broadcasting everything he sees at home and at school to the Internet.
The current mayor of the city of Sineozyorsk, Arkadiy Anikeyev, is caught taking a bribe on an especially large scale, after which, by a court decision, he is placed under house arrest and must stay for a long time at his place of residence in a communal apartment. Arkadiy is abandoned by his wife, to whom all the property was recorded. Once in a communal apartment, Anikeyev runs into Ivan Samsonov, with whom they were neighbors in a communal apartment in childhood. Leaving aside disagreements, Anikeyev decides to help Samsonov become the new mayor of Sineozyorsk, so that he will help to remove all charges from him.
Marina is in her late 30s, she has a successful business and a close-knit family. Her husband is a surgeon and her daughters study at fancy establishments. To everybody her life seems perfect. Though, it is all just a facade concealing the real problems: her husband has a mistress, her elder daughter is a slacker and drug-dealer, her youngest is a sociopath. Well, Marina herself is not really a flower-lady, but a brothel-keeper who is hiding her dark business from everyone. The truth may come out when a girl of Marina’s is found dead.
Nikolai Videnin is a failed film director who is forced to work in a regular video store in Leningrad. One day, Nikolai accidentally turns on an "adult film" for schoolchildren, for which he first goes to court, and then to a colony settlement. There he gets the nickname Vidik and now, instead of pressing the "Play" button on the VCR, the guy has to cut down the forest from morning to evening.