Вадим Журавлев

Yuli Ivanovich Blok is a music lover and enthusiast of early sound recording, who in 1889 was the first to bring Edison's phonograph to Russia, came up with the idea to record the great pianist Anton Rubinstein's playing on a phonograph. But the pianist flatly refused to sign up. Then those present, among whom was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, just started messing around with the device, recording everything that comes to mind. The film is based on a famous case that occurred in January 1890.

Sasha, 30, is a serial loser trying his best to become a successful business coach. Fate leads him to billionaire Oleg Kalugin, who decides to hire a cheerful dreamer as a coach. However, Kalugin does not need business advice, in which the guy knows nothing, but the secret of his ability to sincerely enjoy life despite poverty and other problems. From this moment on, drastic changes begin in Sasha's life, which show the real price of success. Step by step, he is moving further away from happiness, plunging into a world of deception, betrayal, hatred and really big, but dirty money.