Mikhail Merzlikin

Polina and Olya have been friends since childhood. Polina lives for her studies, but her quiet life ends when the girl who dreams of going to study in China fails the selection for an exchange program. It seems that life has lost its meaning, but then an opportunity arises to fix everything: you just need to spend Maslenitsa week with a student from China, immersing him in our culture and introducing him to the traditions of seeing off winter. This student turns out to be the son of a high-ranking Chinese official, the arrogant Wang Yu with a difficult character, but nothing can stop Polina from using her last chance. Nothing, except a broken leg. Olya knows that studying in China is Polina's blue dream, so she immediately decides to help her friend by replacing her during Maslenitsa week.

Nikita lives in the small town of Chegarinsk, which is right on the drug trafficking route from Central Asia to Siberia. Deciding to go to Moscow to build a musical career, Nikita wants to earn extra money. His childhood friend offers to transport a bag of drugs, and during a trip to Krasnoyarsk, Nikita miraculously does not fall into the hands of the police.

An old shaman asks the spirits to let him go. He has spent his entire life serving people who demanded that their wishes be fulfilled - sometimes stupid, insignificant and causing harm to others.

A poor but happy life in anticipation of the first-born can end forever. Anis, Ian’s beloved wife, was taken for debts, which the main character couldn’t recover. And then he chooses the path of revenge. But he will take revenge on God himself, who committed such injustice. In search of a higher power, Ayan discovers a new world full of magic and mythical characters. Here, tales and tales cease to be fiction.

The tragedy of a young Khakass man who is faced with a choice: to become the one who is destined to be a healer–shaman, or to prefer a life free from obligations. While working as an animator, he encountered unexplained phenomena. Having passed the first stage of initiation into shamans and disappointed, the man comes to an interview with a psychologist.