Tetiana Sheliha

Adaptation of Stephen King's story "Stationary Bike".

URSS, fin des années 80. Un couple de vieux artistes soviétiques est assiégé dans sa datcha par une meute de journalistes. Ils ne comprennent pas pourquoi. Il s'agit de Constantin Dalmatov, réalisateur de films à succès sous Staline, et de sa femme, Lidia Poliakova, qui était aussi l'actrice principale de ses oeuvres. Pris de panique, croyant que l'on vient les arrêter, ils commencent alors à brûler les traces de leur passé glorieux.

A girl from a small town comes Kyiv. The capital of Ukraine is a transit point for the young girl on the way to her goal - America, where she obtained a "green card." Only 20 hours of waiting for the plane separate her from her dreams. But at the station she meets two young people that get her in a number of adventurous and romantic adventures ...

Six years old Vitya lives with his parents in the Army base where he meets new friends and has a lot of adventures.

Once in the underpass at the Philharmonic, a singer Lyudmila hears a heavenly voice of a beggar-girl singing "Ave Maria" ...

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.