Petr Levchenko

Zero. Winter. Ural city. A high school student is beaten on the street. He is dying. Parents experience the tragedy in different ways. Mother finds the diary. Only after the death of her son does she begin to understand how he lived. The father is obsessed with revenge and is looking for killers.

Successful but lonely Maria and her adult son are already sharing the common space of their apartment with irritation. Having accepted a marriage proposal from Mikhail, who is courting her, the woman hopes to build personal happiness for the first time in many years and moves in with her lover. Her hopes for a family idyll are destroyed by the man's adult son, who has returned to settle scores with his father. And Mikhail turns out to be not at all the person he wants to seem to be. Taking a forced step into conscious solitude, Maria for the first time makes a choice in favor of the most important person in her life - herself.

Zhuzha's world consists of observation, careful scrutiny, and study, but not interaction. Zhuzha prefers silence to words, and because of this, few understand her, and therefore, she's not very interesting. Unlike her younger sister, violinist Anka, whose world consists of endless rehearsals, school bustle, and preparation for impending university entrance exams. They are the closest people to each other, but everything changes when Zhuzha meets Yura, a deaf boy for whom she becomes a conduit, a way to connect with sounds inaccessible to him, and, without realizing it, she suddenly transforms from a background extra into the protagonist of her own story.

In the regional centre Kuznetsky the mayor has been killed in his office. The murderer is Dimur Kavsadze, in charge of commercial construction work for the city administration. A squall of public concern beleaguers the city. Alexander Danilin is an undercover curator, an intermediary between the business and the authorities; he tries to eliminate trouble and return life to normal. The cause of the tragedy was a construction project, which wrapped itself around Kuznetsky like a tumour, and which was a source of profit for the authorities and the local builders. The construction “devours” free land, the souls of people and even what seems beyond the law of profit: the family. Neither the death of people, nor common sense can stop the construction…

The last days of a mother and son, which they are spent together before mother being sent to a psychiatric clinic.

In a remote village, garbage collector Gio tries to save his sick mother by any means necessary. A local healer sends him in search of a healing spring on a night when, according to legend, pagan spirits emerge from the other world.

This is a story about a young engineer. Every year he examines an old rundown bridge and under orders from his superiors announces it fit for exploitation. Every night a girl comes to his apartment. Their relationship is wrought with misunderstandings and hurt feelings. What will collapse first - the bridge or the relationship?

A sixty-year-old Victor, living in a small provincial town, learns about the disappearance of his adult son and sets out in search of him.