In each episode, the action of Pushkin's fairy tales is transferred to our reality. The familiar Pushkin images will become even clearer: The Princess will turn out to be an instablogger, Elisha will be a rapper, and the Golden Cockerel will be a neural network.
Schoolgirl Masha and her parents are forced to move from Moscow to Novoorsk. After the elite gymnasium on Rublevka, it is not easy for a girl to put up with the rules of a provincial school. At her new school, she becomes a victim of bullying — sophisticated psychological and physical harassment by classmates. It becomes especially harsh because of Masha's feelings for Chris's boyfriend, the main star and rebel of the school. At the suggestion of Chris, the nickname "Crybaby" was glued to Masha. To cope with problems and tears, the heroine is helped only by music and a band that she has put together with other students.
In the past, Soviet prima ballerina and now world-renowned choreographer Ruta Myers returns to the country after almost 40 years to stage a performance at the country's main ballet theater. Ruta is forced to rebuild relationships with friends and enemies, who have become key people in the Russian ballet over the past time, but most importantly — with the artistic director of the theater Andrei Pronin and his family. They were once a couple, and now old feelings and old resentments flare up with renewed vigor. A lot of money, ambitions, and a career are at stake — Ruta, despite all her efforts, finds herself in the epicenter of passions and intrigues very far from the world of art.
The action takes place from April to December 1986. The Ukrainian department of the KGB of the USSR becomes aware of the interest shown by foreign intelligence services in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. To establish the whereabouts of an experienced CIA officer, Albert Lenz, who is suspected of espionage, on the territory of Pripyat, Lieutenant Colonel of military counterintelligence Andrey Nikolaev arrives in the city.
The Myagkov family is forced to sell their house and move into an old apartment. But it turned out that it already has an owner - a ginger cat who is not at all happy with his new neighbors and does not hide it. Attempts to catch and evict the furry pest fail one after another. The head of the family, Mikhail, is ready to take a decisive step to get rid of the cat, but he accidentally steps on a damaged extension cord, and they receive a powerful electric shock. Having come to his senses, the head of the family acquires the superpower to hear and understand the red-haired prankster. Under new circumstances, the Myagkovs decide to leave the cat in the house, and from that moment on, the life of an ordinary Moscow family changes.
The series, like a stage play, is divided into three acts, with a three-year period between each of them and tells a story that will shatter viewers' perceptions of the actors' lifestyle and offer a glimpse into their reality with all their fears, desires, and goals. It will become clear how those whom everyone is used to consider carefree live and work when the stage lights go off. And how actors, more so than any other professionals, can hit rock bottom despite being on their peak the day before.
Sasha Zorina, who at the age of 10 became famous throughout the country for her main role in the popular blockbuster "Aurora", 15 years later works as a telephone psychologist at the suicide prevention center, drinks a lot and tries to continue her acting career without much success.
When she comes to her senses after a protracted celebration of her 25th birthday, she realizes that she absolutely does not remember the previous four weeks. Trying to reconstruct the events of the month that fell out of her memory, the heroine plunges deeper into her past, where everything turns out to be much scarier and more dangerous than she thought.
Rita, a social worker, is conducting an experiment: she organizes an extreme campaign in which she plans to re-educate young offenders. The hike is unexpectedly interrupted by the news of a murder in the group. The teenagers, not believing in a fair trial, decide to run higher into the mountains, taking Rita hostage. Rita's husband goes in search of them, unaware that he has to learn something unexpected about the woman he loves and his marriage.
A three-year-old girl was abducted in a Moscow circus. The kidnapper does not need a ransom, he is driven by a thirst for revenge. He will make his parents suffer the way he suffers, having lost his only loved one. They will never know who punished them. To understand what he is avenging for, you need to go back in time.
Ten—year-old Varvara Smorodina is a real child prodigy, an extremely intelligent and well-read girl. She knows all about criminology and dreams of becoming an outstanding detective like her grandfather. Varvara's catchphrase is "Curious!". Arriving for the summer at his grandparents in the village of Riding, Varya is faced with a lot of mysterious crimes and undertakes investigations together with his new friend, the simple—minded village boy Vasya. It turns out that there are many secrets and unusual incidents in the quiet village!
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.
When the provincial football club Krasny Yastreb remains without a coach before the start of the season in the Russian Premier League, its CEO Anton Danin, bypassing sponsors, appoints Elena Volkova, a talented Muscovite who led her Saiga team to the Champions League, to this position. Now she is the first female coach in men's sports. But Elena will get a cold reception in the city. Because football here is an exclusively male world.
The measured life of a provincial town is shaken by terrible news: the body of a 32-year-old woman has been found. There is a suspicion that the deceased is the sister of the investigator of the local police department, Rita Tikhonova, who disappeared 14 years ago. An investigation begins, during which Rita is faced with very strange circumstances and understands that her environment keeps terrible secrets, and her family and friends are not who they say they are.