Yuriy Minzyanov

Zhenya Horobchik is a Kyiv photographer originally from Zhashkiv who is much loved by women. He is looking for a job, but accidentally finds a new love. Zhenya already has a wife and a son, and an ex-wife and a bunch of problems. He's torn between them and decides he'd rather be under a train than go on like this.

A seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rapper and winning the heart of Sveta. For the sake of his dream, he is willing to risk everything, but circumstances steer his life in a different direction.

Четыре новеллы рассказывают реальные истории жителей Донбасса и украинских военных, чья жизнь проходит по обе стороны линии разграничения.

Ukraine, 1946. Orest, commander of an insurgent squad, is in a hideout together with his pregnant wife Eva and several fighters. The NKVD surrounds the insurgents. The captain of the commissariat squad gives Orest a choice: he either gives Eva out or accepts an unequal fight.

The story of a modern, cultured woman Penelope, who lives in Lviv and works in an archive. The life of Penelope is based on the usual routine: family - work. So everything is decent, polite and - unbearably boring. But one wonderful day everything changes. Young doctor of sciences Dmytro Ostromyrsky comes to the archive. A meeting of heroes leads to uncontrollable passion and crazy actions.

Oksana and Tolik are married for more than 30 years. Oksana, as a dominant, thinks of Tolik as absolutely dependent. While buying clothes at the bazaar in Khmelnytskyi, Oksana asks Tolik to try on a T-shirt. He reluctantly goes behind the curtain and turns into a 7-year-old boy.

Roman lives a lonely life in a provincial city and works as a technician. For the first time since graduation, Liuda, his ex-classmate, comes back to town. Nobody has heard anything from her for twenty years, but Roman is set on not losing her again.

May. Lilac blossom in Kyiv. Five friends and alcohol from the nearest supermarket. You need to be brave to face your fears, but you need to be even more courageous to tell about them to your closest. Looking for lilac's cinquefoil to eat for good luck.

Lack of self-confidence is stopping Viktor from entering the local House of Culture, where the speed dates are to be conducted. However, feeling all the severity of loneliness, he decides to make this step. His fear comes true - every date turns trial to him. Every date exсept one.

С крыши торгового центра упала Анна Власова - дочь крупного бизнесмена. Следователь Борисов не находит мотивов для убийства, тем более, что в крови девушки были найдены наркотики. Но сестра погибшей Кира не считает, что Аня сама решила свести счеты с жизнью. Она решает разобраться в странной смерти сестры, и убеждает Борисова не закрывать дело. Тот продолжает искать улики, а тем временем и сама Кира ищет малейшую ниточку, чтобы распутать клубок. И события начинают развиваться с пугающей скоростью: все знакомые Ани, чьи показания были важны для следствия - погибают. Кира не подозревает, что правда, которую она ищет, может оказаться смертельной и для нее самой.

Одинокий мужик живет на отшибе. Соседи побаиваются его, потому что знают: он — бывший работник уголовного розыска. Однажды к нему приезжает друг и просит помочь в одном деле. Он обещает, но… на рассвете находят труп его друга. Прокуратура открывает дело, которое поручает вести молодому следователю. Но с каждым днем количество подозреваемых уменьшается — они погибают…

A man with a stack of pulp fiction arrives in a village in the Poltava region. Locals know that his name is Slavik, that he comes from Russia, and that he doesn't drink alcohol. Otherwise, he's just like anybody else. He's just a mediocre person. He meets a bright personality in the village. She's a widow called Nina, a local producer of moonshine. Nina is about 20 years older than him. She has a past, she's nervous, but her charisma and vitality attract people. Slavik was also attracted by this. It wasn't easy for them to be together. She loved with passion and was jealous. She wanted him to dig potatoes, not to read, and to booze with her. He learned how to do only the last thing. He had thought he would spend a winter with her and then leave. But no way. Slavik returned to Nina many times as if he was tied to her with some invisible threads. He can't explain his affection for her by anything other than mysticism.