A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.
The main character, Lubov, is always in the spotlight — even at a holiday dedicated to medical workers. The md Terentyev, a very shy man, decides to hit on her. Among its competitors and surgeon Kochetkov. All Lyuba seems lucky, but no one knows the reverse side of this "happiness»…
Terror from within by Yury Felshtinsky and Alexander Litvinenko, representing them as parts of the plan masterminded and sponsored by exiled tycoon Pokrovsky (obvious hint at Boris Berezovsky in real life) and aimed to discredit Russian security services. As this plan has failed, Pokrovsky assisted by some terrorists organizes a hostage taking in a Moscow circus (very similar to Moscow theater hostage crisis in real life) in order to return to Russia, acting as a saver of the hostages during negotiations. However, he fails to do so. The movie also depicts the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia as a place where an important Islamic militant hides, which was a common allegation by Russian authorities in real life around that time, and depicts destruction of a base of terrorists and allies of Pokrovsky in Qatar which might hint at the assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. Overall, the movie was widely considered propaganda.
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
소년 플로리아는 나치 독일의 침공을 받고 있는 벨라루스에 살고 있다. 그런데 첫 장면에서 그는 모래밭의 흙을 파고 있는 중이다. 제대로 매장되지 못한 죽은 병사들의 시체들이 나오지만, 어떻게든 쓸 만한 총을 찾아낸다. 플로리아는 독일군과의 전투에 참여하길 원하지만 어른들은 그를 무시한다. 더 경험 많은 군인에게 그의 총은 인계되고, 그는 군인들의 행진을 지켜볼 뿐이다. 이윽고 플로리아는 글로샤라는 독특한 매력의 소녀와 함께 뒤에 처져 있음을 깨닫는다. 이들은 숲으로 가지만 거기서 나치 독일의 엄청난 폭격을 당하고, 그 바람에 플로리아의 청력에 문제가 생긴다. 정신이 혼미해진 플로리아는 마을로 돌아가는데, 거기서 엄청난 대량 학살의 흔적과 널부러진 시신들을 보고 경악한다. 문득 어머니의 생사가 궁금해져 필사적으로 찾아다니던 그는 비극적인 장면을 목격하게 되는데..
