도쿄에서 우연히 건넨 인사말. 아키코(마에다 아츠코)는 그 말을 믿고 마츠나가(스즈키 료헤이)를 찾아 러시아까지 오게 된다. 하지만 어렵게 찾은 마키나가는 어디론가 사라져 버리고, 아키코는 그를 다시 만나기 위해 러시아에 머물게 된다. 그러다 괴한들에게 짐과 돈까지 모두 빼앗기게 되고, 우연히 찾은 사이토의 식당을 통해 기거할 곳을 얻게 된다. 그렇게 사이토의 가게에서 일을 하며 언제 나타날지 모르는 마츠나가를 기다리는 아키코. 드디어 마츠야마를 찾게 된 날 사이토와 함께 그를 따라가게 되지만, 예상치 못한 결과에 아키코는 큰 위험에 빠지고 마는데...
Lidka's mother
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.
Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes to St. Petersburg on business. But more often they are in the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow just to see each other. Because they have an affair.
Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga try to eliminate Fedot by giving him more and more complex quests and to take Marusya to Tsar's palace. Marusya helps Fedot to solve the quests successfully.
During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
Deaf Russian village - a real bearish corner. People live here like a hundred years ago, in their quiet and seemingly inconspicuous life there is everything - birth and death, the struggle of love and hate, good and evil, honor and betrayal.
