Having lived in Moscow for many years, successful political consultant Aldar returns to his home in Kalmykia to search for his mother who disappeared in the Steppe. He finds her with the help of the local shaman, and together they make the journey that they didn’t have time to take when she was still alive.
The story unfolds somewhere on the shore of the North Sea. Velga and Kirill grew up together, have known each other since childhood. But their feeling of falling in love has matured and fully revealed itself not so long ago. It seems that nothing is able to overshadow their carefree, happy existence, until Velga's older sister, Snow, arrives from the city on the anniversary of her mother's death.
A deal on assigning for property reveals more new rules and laws of the society in the nearest future. The rates haven’t been so high. Status is everything. Love is nothing.
Elza, a mulher do pescador, vive em uma cidade costeira na Calmúquia, no sul da Rússia. Ela quer deixar o marido, mas tem medo das incertezas. Até que ele morre inesperadamente. Elza, então, decide recomeçar e passa a questionar sua maneira de ver a vida, a felicidade e a liberdade.
