Kseniya Plyusnina

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

1984, Sverdlovsk, USSR. A shy freshman, an entrepreneur, a poet and two charming it-girls navigate life in a student dorm, sharing their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all. Suddenly a horrible accident blows up the life of the dorm when a female student commits suicide. The dorm is a miniature model of the world that encapsulates the full range of human passions, acts of bravery and cowardice, aspirations for virtue and failures, of love, friendship and betrayal.

Zhenya is haunted by the same recurring dream: a mysterious man who makes her heart race. She believed him to be a figment of her imagination—until she spotted his photo in a colleague's playlist. It turns out that Pyotr is a successful musician. Zhenya resolves to track down the stranger from her dream.

Atakan is a bloody boulder, a giant granite block, on which pagans sacrificed human sacrifices for centuries. A group of student historians, led by a young teacher, descend into the dungeons of St. Petersburg to find the legendary stone. With each step, the situation gets out of control, only death awaits them. The attack craves new blood. Who will survive?

As the Russian-Ukrainian war breaks out, Lena's family kitchen becomes a battleground. Struggling to prove her pacifist views to the family Lena takes a step she knows won't be approved.

Having come to visit a friend, Zhanna encounters a force which she can’t stand up against.