Stepan's Mother
Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
At a social event, Pavel Grichikhin, a journalist and editor-in-chief of the online publication for women who have been subjected to domestic violence, sees a fragile, pale girl who whispers to him with one lips: “Help ...” Then she, taking some medications under the watchful supervision of her husband . Pavel understands that there is some kind of secret and decides, no matter what, to get to the bottom of the matter and save the girl ...
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.
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