Writing
The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.
Leonid Komkov, despite his lack of experience, is obsessed with becoming a helmsman on a riverboat.
Twelve-year-old Kolya discovers that his mother is getting married. The boy cannot come to terms with the idea that an uncle whom he does not like at all will be his father. Kolya decides to leave home...
Lionia is searching for a personal meaning in life. Meanwhile, others reproach him for being unmarried and having no money. One day, after returning to a riverside settlement, he witnesses motorboat owners rudely exploiting the local residents. He then sets out to ferry people across free of charge.
An extraterrestrial tries in vain to establish contact with scientists on Earth. Unfortunately the first human he meets is Akimych the forester who doesn't believe in miracles.
He did not understand how he got to this strange planet. You need to choose, because it turned out that there is also a certain alien, who in the same time appeared on Earth. But the peculiarity of the situation lies in the fact that between these characters really surprising similarities, which will become the reason for the emergence of a whole series of all sorts of oddities. It is not known whether they can return to their seats, because none of the participants in these events is not how it all happened. And viewers will get a whole lot of emotions and experiences, because to watch it all from the really interesting, as the arisen situation can hardly be called a typical and familiar to modern movies.
