Olga Dragunova

En 1998, Nalchik, Nord Caucase, Russie. Ilana, 24 ans, travaille dans le garage de son père pour l'aider à joindre les deux bouts. Un soir, la famille et les amis se réunissent pour célébrer les fiançailles de son jeune frère David. Dans la nuit, David et sa fiancée sont kidnappés et une rançon réclamée. Au sein de cette communauté juive repliée sur elle-même, appeler la police est exclu. Comment faire pour réunir la somme nécessaire et sauver David ? Ilana et ses parents, chacun à leur façon, iront au bout de leur choix, au risque de bouleverser l'équilibre familial.

1945, la deuxième guerre mondiale a ravagé Léningrad. Au sein de ces ruines, deux jeunes femmes, Iya et Masha, tentent de se reconstruire et de donner un sens à leur vie.

Partos Alekseevich Paramonov (Paramosha) worked in the circus as a clown. His wife died and he began to drink too much. Paramoshi left a porcelain figurine on a golden pedestal from a past life. Once there was a phone call and a woman's voice, invited the old man to speak at the bottom of the city. Paramosha went to a stop and waited a long time for the coveted black Mercedes from the city hall, but the call was just an insidious ploy of friends who wanted to lure Paramosha out of the apartment and take possession of the figurine.

Alexey, still a young man, found himself in an extremely difficult situation. He must devote most of his time to his mother, who is almost completely paralyzed after a stroke. His situation is aggravated by the fact that his mother, once an actress in a small provincial theater, no longer sees the point of living.

After the funeral of his young wife Asi, David tries to cope with the loss. The condolences of his friends and the reproachful words of her relatives do not seem to make any impression on him. Suddenly Asya appears on the threshold of the apartment. Her appearances are repeated over and over again until the boundaries of reality and dream for David are finally blurred.