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Sometimes it seems to parents that their child has been replaced... and two Ivanov families from the south of Russia are simply sure of this: after 16 years, namesakes will find out that their children were confused in the maternity hospital. What if your beloved son is not really your own, but your blood is being raised by strangers? And in a luxury that you never even dreamed of. And how will he accept his new, but painfully poor relatives?
Olga brings up two children from different marriages, cares about her alcoholic father and tries to adjust her personal life. The eldest daughter Anya is studying in a vocational school, she thinks that she is the only adequate member of the family, and in her life everything will be different. The younger son Timofey, whose father returned to the first family in Azerbaijan, believes that he is already a man, although he is only 11 years old. Olga's father, Yuri Gennadievich, a former football player, drinks hard and constantly lies, which often leads to scrape. And sister Lena is trying to live at the expense of men - mostly married. Eternally saving relatives from troubles, Olga lives a strange life and rarely thinks of herself until Grisha, a young and positive driver of the “Sable” hearse, falls in love with her.
Zakhar is the head of a big family who spent all his life living in a village in a private house. He is also the only one who refused to sell the land for the construction of a new residential complex. After all, not only his right to private property but also his happy memories are under threat: the old forest he knew since he was little was cut down, and the pond where he used to fish with his father was drained. Moreover, his grandson fell in love with the developer's daughter! While life seems to fall completely apart, Zakhar, together with his family, decides to stand his ground to the very end against urban developers, dissatisfied tenants of the newly built high-rise, and total injustice.
Sasha, an excellent student at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is facing a difficult ordeal — serving in the most disadvantaged area of Yugodonsk. He hopes to find his father there, whom he has never seen, a true legend of the criminal investigation department. However, instead of the exemplary hero, Sasha meets his complete opposite, the "Little One." An experienced operative has long established life in the city on the principle of "live by yourself and let others live" — for the sake of his own convenience, the "Little One" turns a blind eye to minor offenses of local residents. Sasha faces an almost impossible task: to solve complicated cases and re-educate his father, a partner who has long been accustomed to solving everything according to his own rules, and not according to protocol.
In each episode, Sergei and Nadia Nesterov discuss with a psychologist the problems of a large family: the midlife crisis, Tamara's grandmother's manipulations, the teenage dilemmas of Katya and Vasilisa's daughters, the hyperactivity of Misha's son. But the main thing they come to a specialist for is to save a 17—year marriage.
The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.
Women adore Andrey, and he loves to... use them. His life unexpectedly changes after meeting an extraordinary girl, Nastya, with whom he spends a random night. She turns out to be the granddaughter of a real witch. Nastya's granny decides to teach Andrey a lesson, who, in her opinion, offended her granddaughter and rewards the womanizer with horns. The only way for Andrey to get rid of this branchy decoration is true, mutual love.
An almanac of three stories.
