Anna Nakhapetova

May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to three years, and the captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young mothers were exiled to the island from the territories occupied by fascists, and their children are the children of the German occupier. Arrival of the major upsets the casual life on the island. The major has to "clean up" the island and the nearest settlements. The military man authorizes a plan to organize a training camp in the region for saboteurs. The night of May, 9, the women are told about the German capitulation, their hopes for forgiveness and return home become a certainty. They are even allowed to celebrate the Victory.

A film almanac consisting of three short stories, each of which tells about the fate of a woman, her hopes for love and the vicissitudes of fate. A village girl Mira dreams of a groom, and now an officer stays in their house for the night, and Mira soon discovers that she is pregnant... Valya, who returned from Venice, where she lived for two years, meets Alexei, her sister's lover – and she likes him. Vera, a retired ballerina, teaches yoga at a hotel and falls in love with a married man. And one day a Spanish theater comes to their city with a ballet ... each of the women will have to make difficult decisions in an attempt to find happiness.

One Sunday in the life of little Alyosha and his divorced parents.

Le détective de la police de Moscou, Andrei Somov, démissionne et immigre aux États-Unis, mais doit accepter un travail subalterne dans un restaurant tandis que son fils adolescent et sa belle-fille enceinte se voient refuser des visas de sortie. 'Andy' fait cependant connaissance avec des flics du LAPD après avoir offert son expertise et ses compétences en russe et est envoyé à Tijuana pour aller chercher des carreaux bon marché. Au cours de ce voyage mexicain, Somov rencontre Larry, un autre citoyen d'origine russe mais américain qui a perdu sa fille il y a des années et qui aide maintenant des familles à entrer illégalement aux États-Unis. Pendant ce temps, le médium Michael March reçoit une vision d'un bombardier fou qui cible les sociétés pharmaceutiques et a un mauvais pressentiment en tenant une enveloppe qui appartient à Larry.

La vie de Natalya est bouleversée, une semaine avant son anniversaire, à l'arrivée du nouveau tuteur de son fils.