Basado en una historia real. Arthur es un médico viudo y ex militar que lleva una vida tranquila en un pueblo de montaña en la región rusa de Daguestán. Hasta que descubre que su única hija, la pequeña Maryam, ha sido reclutada por una organización terrorista y llevada a la guerra en Siria. Entonces Arthur va tras ella, desesperado y dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para salvarla. Pero tendrá que tomar una decisión difícil: ¿salvar a su propia hija o a la de alguien más?
Ivan, a successful oncologist who has created a cure for cancer, discovers suddenly that by an ironical twist of fate he is terminally ill. He realizes that he has one chance to correct the mistake he made a long time ago, and leaves his family to go to another city to the woman he loved all his life, hoping to spend the last night with her...
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
