Viktoriya Sobol

August 1960. Director Nikolai Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. The construction of grandiose decorations begins in the pavilion. Berentsev himself develops models of planets and spacecraft, comes up with special devices for combined filming. He tries to imagine and visualize something that no one has ever seen — life on other planets. He believes that fantasy should run ahead of science, but faces skepticism from colleagues and the scientific community. In the end, he himself begins to doubt whether his film is needed by the audience, why these dreams of Space, when there are so many unresolved problems on Earth.

A minivan rides through the evening city. From it in turn in different places passengers leave. Nothing is known about them, except that they are going to arrange a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks.

After the daughter’s death, Galina stays completely alone and loses the meaning of life. Suddenly she notices the incarnation of her daughter in a prostitute met in the elevator.

A young man once fled his hometown, but now chooses to return. It is a return to the feelings and the people who once drove him away.