After coding from alcoholism, Anatoly Snarov looked at his life with new, sober eyes. It turns out that he has a wife, children and a responsible position of the head of housing and communal services in the district town of Sorochinsk. Having achieved enlightenment, Snarov decides to make others happy. He becomes an exemplary family man and an active citizen. His stormy activity quickly goes beyond the powers of the head of housing and communal services. In the hope of saving themselves from an active reformer, Snarov's entourage is throwing all their strength into decoding him...
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
A day in the life of a typical character of Russian history, "the little man": a school teacher of Russian language and literature. An intellectual and his problems at the beginning of the 21st century. A day in the life of the country which Yesenin loved. About a country that still has hope...
Однажды еще в студенческие годы Лена сделала опрометчивый шаг, вышла замуж совсем не за того, за кого следовало. И вот спустя семнадцать лет на нее, Елену Смирнову, сотрудника частной фирмы, разом сваливаются все несчастья, какие только возможны. Ее увольняют с работы, к другой женщине уходит муж, обвиняют в краже миллионов долларов со счета фирмы и в довершение шестнадцатилетняя дочь Аля узнает, что Елена ей не родная мать, не может простить такого обмана и уезжает к родной матери в Прагу.
Жене уже 28 лет, а она все никак не выйдет замуж, да и молодого человека у нее нет. «Конечно, работая медсестрой в поликлинике, с кем познакомишься?», — примерно так рассуждает девушка.
