How often children do not find understanding on the part of adults, and older parents become a burden for their grown, busy children. The story of the trials that fell to the lot of the four young "truth seekers", who decided to solve their own problems, and at the same time help their grandmother, whom her own children want to take to a nursing home.

Finding herself in a difficult life situation, Anna follows the advice of a dishonest realtor and, as a result, finds herself without a home. She is forced to live in a communal apartment. At first, it is difficult for her to find a common language with her neighbors - it seems that life on the "social bottom" will soon bring her to the handle. But gradually she understands that kind and vulnerable souls often hide behind external rudeness. It turns out she has a lot to learn from her neighbors. And it is in the communal apartment that Anya will find her happiness ...

Lyubanya, a hairdresser who has lost her job, and her eleven-year-old son find themselves in a difficult situation. She tries to borrow money from his girlfriend Simkina. She agrees to help, but only on the condition that Lyubanya will help her regain the man she loved, a certain Valeriy. Lyubanya must "accidentally" get acquainted with him and pretend to be his ideal, and when he falls in love with the "woman of his dreams" — leave him. Then Simkina will appear to "glue" Valeriy's broken heart, and at the same time their broken relationship. Out of desperation, Lyubanya joins in this game, but very quickly realizes that she has fallen in love. The heroine faces the question: how to tell Valeriy the truth about himself and their "casual" acquaintance?

Dasha is in the eighth grade. She is a very ordinary girl, she has no mother, she lives with her father and younger sister Ulyana. Her father works as a car mechanic and communicates with eccentric clients, and Dasha has to take care of her sister, in which her elderly neighbor Pavel sometimes helps her. Dasha loves to dream. She imagines that she lives in a fairy tale, and the people around her are her fairy tale characters. Once, lost in her dreams and telling her sister a fairy tale at night, she imagined everything so clearly that the fairy tale "came to life": Dasha became Cinderella, and Ulyana became Thumbelina.

Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel.