In the world, there is a city-port Odessa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of different nationalities and religions. Humor is a special language that helps people from Odessa to communicate and get along with each other. Legends are spreading about Odessa's humor and accent. But - a paradox - people are constantly leaving it. It is loved, but it is left as a child leaves his mother. On the example of this city and its inhabitants, we wanted to understand - why people flee from their cities. We tried to find the answer taking pictures of Odessa citizens in Germany, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, France and other places. Michael Zhvanetskij, Roman Kartsev, Leonid Barats and Rostislav Khait Victor Loshak,  Oksana Fandera, Valerij Todotovskij, Mikhail and Anatoly Kontush and many others are telling their stories and giving their opinions on what is the phenomenon of the city by the Black Sea.

At the start of the new capitalistic era in Russia a group of friends open a taxi cab company.

Masha, a naive 18-year-old creature from the Moscow region, gets into the world of dreams - on television. Her chance to become famous is the reality show "Maiden's Room", a project of foreign producers, in whose work such concepts as morality and decency are not key. They place hidden TV cameras in Masha's apartment, but the girl herself does not know about it...

Artist Alberto travels to a small Italian town to visit his ex-wife for a formal divorce in the local court. But suddenly an incredible phantasmagoria begins to happen. In a day, a bright flash of their other life reveals what they could not admit to each other for many years.

Documentary about the Soviet film director and his changing fortunes during the Stalin years.

A film about the famous jazzman Igor Butman. How did a boy from Soviet Leningrad manage to step into the big world of jazz music? And what role did Sergei Kuryokhin, Dave Brubeck, Winton Marsalis and Bill Clinton play in his life? The details of rehearsals and concerts, the secrets of family traditions, the frank stories of the musician's friends create an interesting picture of the being of a person striving for his dream. Multiple world champion Vyacheslav Fetisov, prominent jazzmen David Goloshchekin and Nikolai Levinovsky, singer Sergei Mazayev and many other public figures and art masters take part in the film.