Nadezhda Igoshina

In order to get the opportunity to make his first film, the aspiring director Maxim is forced to agree with the producer's comments and make censored changes to his script. Yes, it will be a completely different movie, but it will be. Returning home, Maxim discovers an extremely unusual phenomenon: instead of a mat in speech, he hears a piercing "piiip", and instead of naked body parts — black "patches" and a fuzzy image. And even alcohol has lost its taste and degree. It seems that Maxim has become the main source of censorship for himself.

Anya is spending the evening in her loved one’s company when her husband suddenly appears.

Influential businessman Vladimir owns enterprises for the development and sale of technologies that allow you to see the hidden. Around him and his young wife Catherine, events unfold that take them into the past. They witness Felissa Kruut's love triangle in the 1920s and 1930s. In the present, Catherine meets the young musician Stepan and her real love life becomes a reflection of the life of Felissa Kruut in the past. Vladimir, unable to observe from the outside and come to terms with his wife's infidelity, is trying to interfere with this relationship.

Nadya and Valya, young women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, without faith and hope for the best, sisters, of whom, ironically, there are only two left. Will they be able to break out of their "Chekhovian" stupor and again begin to feel, breathe, live and love?

For Vova Myshkin nothing holds together. His girlfriend leaves him, he has a massive loan, he has to vacate his apartment, and here on the threshold stands his older brother who has just been released from prison.

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

Valya has always been dreaming about living in Venice. She sold her Moscow flat and left. The younger sister, Nadezhda, stayed alone in the country house. After a few years Valya became disenchanted with Venice and returned. Now, "in a Chekhovian way", both sisters live in a house with a mezzanine, this is what you call loneliness together. They became stuck between the past and the present. Behind the gates you find the frightening and incomprehensible everyday life, into which you "enter each time like into an Odyssey". One day Alexey appears, a mature man with an intelligent face. Nadia snatches him but Valya also likes him. A classic love triangle? No, our sisters have very different plans for Alexey…

A strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor's life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.

On Saturday morning, her mother comes to Nadya to take her with her to the cemetery. Nadia has her own plans, but her mother authoritatively pulls her out of the usual schedule. They need to visit the grave of Nadya’s father, whom his mother divorced long before his death. On the way, the mother swears and in every possible way manifests her irreconcilable nature. Nadia suffers, but on the way back, women quarrel violently. Mother slams the door in the middle of the road and leaves, and Nadia pierces the wheel and has to stop.

A famous movies director tries to understand why his life started to change so drastically.

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...