A knock on your door sets in motion the feeling of anxiety. Should you open? Who, or what, will you encounter if you do? The characters of this continuous-shot anthology film – a billionaire, a commercial pilot, a trainee police officer, and a young single mother – find themselves in critical situations, facing the unknown. To make the right choice they must look deep within themselves, and recognize the true source of their fears.
On August 24, 1981, the newlyweds Larisa and Vladimir Savitsky stepped on board the plane following the flight Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk. 30 minutes before landing, the civilian aircraft AN-24 collided with another aircraft and broke into pieces at an altitude of more than 5 kilometers above the ground. No one was supposed to survive ... but a miracle happened. Larisa Savitskaya woke up in the middle of the wreckage of the plane in the impenetrable taiga. Now she herself had to create a real miracle, which only a strong-minded person is capable of.
Little Sasha grows up in a boarding school and waits for his mother to come for him. Once on the radio he hears the work of S. Rachmaninov, falls in love with music and independently learns to play the piano. In a boarding school, and after - beyond, the hero will face cruelty, unrequited love, crime, and find a way to his vocation - music. But how to stop waiting for mom?
Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.
Agosto de 1944. As tropas soviéticas continuam a ofensiva no leste da Polônia. O tenente Egorov e seu batalhão têm uma missão: garantir a passagem de outras tropas soviéticas por uma ponte, que é próxima a um mosteiro deserto. Entretanto ao chegar à posição, percebem que o local está habitado por um grupo de crianças órfãs, que estão sob os cuidados de uma professora. Agora, Egorov terá de decidir como executar a ordem do quartel general sem comprometer a vida dos pequenos.
