Writing
Vera Andreyevna and Grigory Petrovich are an elderly couple who have had a long and happy life together. One day in the market Vera Andreyevna runs into an untidy and half-drunk old man whom she recognizes with difficulty. It is Alyosha, who was in the same orphanage with her and who had been her first love. Reminiscences overwhelm them and stir their hearts. Alexei Ivanovich, who had lived a far from easy life, undergoes an amazing change. He begins to look younger and more orderly. Vera Andreyevna feels she is a woman again, a woman who has to make her choice.
The businessman father did everything he could to set his son Savva on the right path. Nothing helped and would not have helped, perhaps, if it hadn't been for the glass. The glass in the window of a bank, broken by the Daddy in the heat of a quarrel with Savva, and as a consequence, an acquaintance with Svetlana, as well as a chain of further events...
In a small community in the Ural mountains of Russia in 1953, just after Stalin's death, Barracks begins with the arrival of Olga (Irina Senotova). Olga is alone, her entire family wiped out by a Stalinist purge in Leningrad. She is soon romanced by a militiaman named Alexei, who serves as the community liaison to the government
Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.
A group of soldiers is stuck on the Russian-Chechen border near the field which locals call dead.
