The year is 1967. A series of mysterious murders of women are taking place in Leningrad. An experienced KGB major, Chuzhbin, and a police captain, Fedorov, are assigned to catch a maniac who leaves mysterious signs next to the victims.
The genius of mathematics Mikhail Nefedov teaches probability theory and mathematical statistics at the university. He remembers everything he has ever heard, seen or read. Mikhail learns that his teenage son has a dangerous genetic disease, the treatment of which will require a multimillion-dollar sum. After selling the apartment, Nefedov makes a perfectly calculated bet on a local football league match, but loses. He couldn't have made a mistake, which means there is an unaccounted variable in the equation. And this is an underground betting business where the results of games are rigged to extract illegal income. Mikhail calculates the organizers of the shadow business and demands his winnings from them. This is how the university teacher's war with the betting mafia begins.
Early 20th century. Polina arrives at a girls' boarding school on a mysterious island to find her sister who disappeared under strange circumstances. Polina's investigation is complicated not only by conflicts with other girls and the imperious mentor Zakharova but also by a strange obsession that drives the girls mad, one after another. Polina needs to find out what happened to her sister without losing her mind in the process and get off the island which is sinking in the abyss of insanity.
Investigator Pavel Frolov gets into a car accident. After that, his life is torn into two parallel realities — in one of them his son Kirill survived the disaster, in the other his wife Svetlana. Every morning, when Pavel wakes up, he finds himself alternately, in reality with his son, then with his wife. In each of these lives, he tries to find out who or what is behind the accident in order to try to connect the two realities together. And at the same time, to return the respect of his son and the love of his wife, to whom he often preferred work before.
Alexandra falls in love with the charming guy Andrey. Afraid of losing him, the girl does not dare to tell him that she is a sexaholic. The mysterious behavior of his beloved drives Andrey crazy, and to such an extent that he is ready to marry her, despite the fact that they did not even have sex (according to the rules of anonymous sexaholics, Sasha is allowed to engage in them only in a legal marriage).
In search of sensational material, the capital's journalist Tatyana Blok finds herself in the village. The reason for the shooting is large-scale: one morning in the village of Verkhnyye Brody (across the river from the Lower Ones), all the people disappeared. Twenty people at once. Money, documents, and all the livestock were left in place. Tatiana takes over the investigation. For her, this is a chance to prove that she was fired from television for nothing, and she is able to shoot high-quality investigative reports. But for this, Tatiana will have to learn how to live in the village, or rather, to survive in it.
On a snow-covered highway near the northern town of Kostomuksha, police find the frozen corpse of a woman in a frozen car. The victim is the wife of investigator Evgeniy Rudin. The rage that has taken possession of the hero leads him along the path of senseless cruelty, the victims of which can be both innocent people and those close to Rudin. Evgeniy finds unexpected support in the face of a strange boy Mitya. Meanwhile, the killings continue.
Moscow. 60s. Young lawyer starts working in one of the most pow- erful legal services in USSR called Filial No 1. She needs to prove that her presence there is not accidental.
Six stories about life in Russia in the near future and the problems of human interaction with advanced technologies: a girl decides to have a serious conversation with her boyfriend, but encounters his clones; a literature teacher finds an unusual way to interest students in Russian classics; Vsevolod pretends to be a domestic robot; a guy makes confusion in the relationship of his girlfriend's digitized parents; a lawyer is forced to defend the accusedabout the murder of an artificial intelligence coffee machine; after losing his job, a former courier hunts for food delivery robots.
The famous singer Kirill Artemyev is accused of raping Vera, the ex-girlfriend of the journalist of the scandalous television talk show Pravda Pasha. In unsuccessful attempts to investigate the events of that day, Pasha goes to the extreme measure — brings Vera to a live talk show. Speaking on television has an unexpected effect for everyone. Despite the name of the show, it is not the search for the truth that becomes the main goal of the participants.
Misha's life didn't go well. Overnight, he lost his girlfriend, his job, and his confidence in the future. Having bought an armchair on Avito, he finds inside a folder with documents and a huge amount of money belonging to the right hand of the governor of the city. Thinking about what to do with the find, Mikhail begins to gradually fix communal defects in the yard, which deserves the respect of residents and the status of a people's deputy. However, the governor discovers the loss of documents, and elections are coming soon in the city... Will popular love and a mysterious folder help Misha take the governor's chair?
The story is about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Hamburg, locked in a castle in quarantine. William, the Messenger who brought the news of the plague, is also locked up in the castle.
Colonel Kostenko (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) and his new assistant, young Lieutenant Tedeeva, are heading to Magadan to investigate an extraordinary murder. The handwriting of the criminal leads them to a similar case at the end of the war. In order to identify a dangerous repeat offender, investigators have no choice but to look for a connection between events and traces of his crimes - in the past and present…
The series is about a former motorcycle racer, champion of a motorcycle track, who, having become an alcoholic, moonlights as a driver and tries to stop drinking and improve his life.
The brilliant cashier Alexey Voronov goes on the run. Fearing persecution, he decides to plant a "drop" instead of himself, Yura Afanasyev, a provincial loser, like two drops of water similar to Voronov himself. However, the ideal plan gets out of control: Voronov gets shot in the head, and Afanasyev is saved by Alexei's guards, mistaking him for his boss.
A Russian emigrant in Scandinavia sends her son to school, but he does not return. In search of a child, she finds herself at a dead end: according to the laws of the new juvenile justice, her son is the property of the state.