Año 1904. Han pasado treinta años desde la muerte de Anna Karenina (Elizaveta Boyarskaya), mujer que en su juventud tomó la difícil decisión de abandonar a su marido y a su hijo para entregarse a su amante, el Conde Vronsky (Maksim Matveev). Ahora, el Conde y Serguei Karenin (Kirill Grebenshchikov), el hijo de Anna ya adulto convertido en doctor militar, son oficiales del ejército al mando de una pequeña posición rusa en Manchuria, a punto de ser derrotada por las fuerzas japonesas. En los pocos días que comparten, y pese a la mutua desconfianza, Serguei y Vronsky tendrán la oportunidad de revisitar su pasado para, finalmente, encontrar las respuestas que ambos han buscado durante tanto tiempo.
A princess falls in love with a musician and separates from her husband, for which she is separated from her daughter Eliza and expelled from home. In her new marriage, she has a second daughter, Liza, and the sisters do not yet know about each other's existence. One fine day the royal family comes to the city where they live...
A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager.
A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university.
The events that take place from the evening of one day, until the afternoon of the next, radically change the life of the family of the elderly writer Zharkov.