The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, clean and modest girl who meekly marries an already worn-out and balding man from the city, decently "laying by the collar". There is a merry wedding, and the husband leaves, leaving another worker in the family...

Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.

Having entered the institute, the hero of the film, along with his new comrades, goes to the village "for potatoes". A month spent in the "open air" not only fills the life of a spoiled urban youth with interesting acquaintances and impressions, but also gives him his first love.

A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov’s murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death during the “purge” in the “Kirov” case.

Sometimes he allowed himself to drink for real. One morning after a night of drinking, having found a woman in his bed, whom, as it turned out, had prevented from leaving for Odessa, he proposed to her and invited the girl on a road trip…

In 1947, a post-war year, Semyon Chizhov, a student of a naval representation school, and Victoria, a young woman who works at the school as a senior pioneer instructor, meet by chance.

A year ago they met on the same bench, he introduced himself as Yura. At night, Yura left Vera, promising that he would return soon. Now, a year later, he did not recognize her, he said that her name was Nikolai, then Alexei. But Vera still hopes for something...