Lavrenty Semenovich Timoshin, or simply Lavrik, is a young, promising, but very anxious candidate of sciences, who heads the biochemistry laboratory of a serious research institute and has been developing a cure for fear for several years. Mostly from his own. Lavrik is afraid of everything — scientific achievements, his mother's anger, love and reforms at the National Research University. The latter are not long in coming. The rector of the Bogomolov Institute, who has held this position for a long time, wants to give up his post to the younger generation, and Lavrik is the best candidate. But will this position be a boon for Lavrik and will it still allow him to complete his research, especially when such drastic changes go far beyond career growth?
Every summer for 11 years the Belyaevs' from Severodvinsk has been spending their vacation in Gelendzhik. The Northerners stay with their old friends in the same guesthouse. The long-term friendship of the families led to the fact that a young man, the son of the head of the "Northerners" family named Sasha, this summer, firmly decided to propose to Lyusya, the daughter of the head of the "Southerners" family ... Meanwhile, the Northerners' family is on the verge of divorce. Larisa is tired of tolerating her childish husband Seva Belyaev, who just can't grow up. The last straw was the news that Seva, before leaving on vacation, quit his job without telling anyone. The conflict within the family explodes, and Larisa announces to her husband that she intends to get a divorce ... The situation in the Southerners family is not easy either. It turns out that over this year Lyusya's father has found a new girlfriend - Madina.
Fate played a strange joke with Airborne Forces officer Vladimir Mendin (call sign "Mendel"): his whole life is spent among women. Three daughters took over his house a long time ago, and there was almost no room for vests on the hanger between the dresses. One day, Mendel's life becomes even more "pink" when, according to the will of the deceased general, he gets a successful wedding salon, which is run by Lena Zhukova, a confirmed bachelor. And that would be all right, except that the general's widow and her new boyfriend seriously decided to take away the salon.
A journalist of a small provincial newspaper Yura has been writing unremarkable news of his hometown all his life. But suddenly an event happens to Yura that turns his whole life upside down — visions come to him that predict murders secretly and unnoticeably taking place in Rybinsk. Soon the situation is complicated by the fact that in one of the cases Yura becomes the main suspect.
The brisk and determined Sasha wants to take revenge on her ex-boyfriend and disrupt his wedding. To put his plan into practice, Sasha comes to St. Petersburg, where he gets a job at the registry office. But instead of the registrar of weddings, she gets the place of the registrar of divorces. Sasha becomes a witness to many ridiculous situations, as well as a participant in romantic adventures.
Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.
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 documentary series tells about the history of the new Russian cinema in the context of events that changed Russia forever. The narrative is built in chronological order: from 1992, when the first film was released, where "Russia" was listed in the output data instead of "USSR", to the present. Directors, actors and producers will share their memories of the path in Russian cinema. Among them are Fyodor Bondarchuk, Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeny Tsyganov, Zhora Gooseberry, Pyotr Buslov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Khotinenko, Valeria Guy Germanika, Sergey Selyanov, Egor Konchalovsky and many others.
Victor is a world boxing champion, the idol of millions of fans, a star. Everything changes in an instant when, by a ridiculous coincidence, he becomes the culprit of an unintentional murder. After liberation comes the realization that there is no more fame, no more money contracts. In the absence of work, Victor agrees to participate in underground battles. However, no one expects him to win here either. Only his father remembers his glorious sporting past, and the twelve—year-old boy Kirill is a boarding school student with autism. Victor begins to train the boys from the orphanage, trying to change them and himself for the better. He will have to recreate himself, emerge victorious from all the troubles and remain human at the same time. The latter is especially important, because his boys are now looking up to him.
Nikolai Sergeevich, who has been in charge of the pediatrics department for many years, retires and enters the "wonderful world of pensioners". Unfortunately, Nikolai Sergeich has neither savings nor a family. His wife left him a year ago, but left him touching letters with memories and advice for the rest of his life. Having quickly tasted all the public benefits of his position, Nikolai Sergeyevich decides to immediately go to his wife. He arranges a farewell dinner for himself, but then fate brings him together with a young energetic guy Lech, who works as a "friend for an hour", and together they go to breaking bad.
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.
Denis is suddenly abandoned by a girl. He decides on an adventure and opens an escort agency with his friend Nikita to earn money and "buy" Nastya's love. Suddenly, things are going uphill, and the guys are getting more and more involved in business. And along with a lot of money and new acquaintances, a series of endless problems breaks into their lives.
An ordinary day in an ordinary Moscow five-story building ends in tragedy: an explosion occurred in one of the entrances. People have lost not only a roof over their heads and property, but also lost their loved ones and relatives... Grief unites people, and now the survivors will have to learn to live anew together. And the main thing is to understand the true causes of what happened.