Big Boss Evgeny Sergeevich instructs Slava and Zhenya to sell a batch of smuggled solar stone. Slava and Zhenya are friends who have been working in amber since childhood. In the 90s, Slava and Zhenya had a chance to rise, to become wealthy people, but one circumstance that happened through the fault of Slava forever deprived them of this opportunity. After receiving a large batch from Evgeny Sergeevich, Zhenya has a plan in his head on how to get rich quickly and become the person he always dreamed of being. What is Zhenya capable of to achieve his goal, and is there a place for friendship when it comes to big money?
1,800년대 중반 러시아에서는 망자의 영혼을 지키기 위해, 죽은 사람의 눈에 그림을 그리고 사진으로 남기는 기이한 풍습이 일어난다. 한편, 한 사진사는 여자 노예를 이용해 결혼식 전 세상을 떠난 신부를 살려내려고 하지만 신부의 의식이 돌아오지 않자, 그녀의 원화를 집안에 숨겨 망자와의 재회를 꿈꾼다. 한편, 바냐와 혼인 서약을 마친 나스티아는 바냐의 친척을 만나기 위해 고향을 찾지만, 그곳에서 환영과 환각을 경험하며 불길한 기운을 감지하는데…
1946, Kyrgyzstan, evacuated from Leningrad woman with two children — boys of six and ten years. Their father is in hospital, badly wounded. Time is poor, hungry. The family fights for life, selling homemade rugs on the market and picking up everything that can be useful in the economy on the ruins of abandoned houses. Once the brothers find in the dump a book with wonderful pictures. This is Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "goldfish". The mother reads it to them before bedtime — and in the lives of boys be the dream and the sense of becoming owners of the coveted gold fish and the three wishes, one of which, of course, the return of the father, alive and well.
