Worker sewing workshop Lida and her husband Anton — exemplary family. They have been together for twenty years, raising an adult daughter Sonya and lead a measured, calm, "right" life. But all this adjusted world suddenly collapses when Anton during business trip to Moscow meets the Institute girlfriend Tanya, the capital beauty and the business lady. Having seen the revived pictures of glossy happiness, Anton bitterly understands that his only life passes by and if he does not change it now, he will never change it…
At the end of the 70s, a boy Mishka, abandoned by his mother and stepfather, lives in a provincial Soviet town. Curious, bold and angry. With his bluntness and fearless naivete, he conquers the local gangster John, and with the help of his patron begins to act in local taverns, finally leaving a dysfunctional family.
제2차 세계대전 때 소련연방 서부전선에서 독일군 진영에 침투해 활약하는 소련군 수색 대원들의 모습을 그리고 있다. 독일군의 저항으로 어려움을 겪던 소련군은 일군의 정찰대를 독일군 후방에 침투시켜 적을 공격하기로 한다. '즈베즈다'는 '별'이란 뜻의 러시아어로 영화에서 부대원들의 통신암호도 상용된다. 실화를 바탕으로 소련 부대원들의 영웅담을 생생한 화면과 감동적인 이야기로 전한다.
