Vladislav Toldykov

Denis a grandi dans un orphelinat. Il est atteint d’une maladie le rendant insensible à la douleur. Un jour, sa mère débarque et l’emmène à Moscou. Elle est associée à des fonctionnaires corrompus. Dès lors, il participe à leurs manigances...

Un jour d'hiver, Sergueï Sobolev, capitaine de la police locale, est en route vers l'hôpital où sa femme s'apprête à accoucher. Surexcité, il renverse un enfant qui meurt à la suite de l'accident. Le capitaine a deux options : aller en prison ou cacher le crime. Sobolev décide alors d'appeler un collègue pour l'aider...

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.

Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the forth, Andrey. Kind-hearted Michail helps Andrey escape and together they run from the villains who chase them. Thus, two totally different men start a long and dangerous journey together, constantly arguing with each other regarding their ideology, morals and opinions about life. But life will put everything on its place and make the men understand who they really are.