Acting
1993 - the story of one family suddenly turns out to be the history of the whole country. The relationship of painfully and inextricably linked husband and wife, emergency workers, and the growing up of their daughter against the backdrop of global change.
New Year is a kind of milestone, the moment of summing up, making decisions. New Year is a new beginning, time to dream, make wishes and wait for miracles ... While all of Moscow is buying up gifts and decorating Christmas trees, Denis is desperately trying to manage to open the bar by December 31 and prove his worth to his father. Irina is more and more immersed in work, trying not to notice either the decorated office, or the approaching holidays, or her own loneliness. Nastya is a first-year student, all alone in a strange Moscow, misses her mother, works in a cafe and, smiling with all her strength, brings people joy and coffee. Sveta is Snegurochka, and to whom, how could she not be happy about the New Year and give others a festive mood, but she’s not going smoothly either: her beloved husband is completely immersed in the world of computer games and does not notice either his son, or Sveta, or reality.
The film almanac brings together 5 stories about young and energetic people who are not afraid to be free and to make mistakes. They live life to the fullest and think they’re ready to do anything for such a life. However, each of them, succumbing to their carelessness, once made the wrong choice. Unable to correct the mistakes of their youth, the characters’ lives become a consequence of those mistakes. They will have to understand how important it is to make choices consciously and take responsibility for the consequences.
The couple decides to jump off the bridge together with a safety harness.