Acting
Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.
The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are under pressure from relatives, friends, and doctors. Both are going through a difficult decision-making process. Each episode of the artistic part shows the life circumstances and the path that a woman in a crisis situation goes through. In documentary inserts, representatives of various professions (psychologists, lawyers, gynecologists, clergymen) tell how they face the problem of abortion in their lives.
Under Tanechka's influence, Ivan Semenov went from being a cheerful hooligan to being "mother's friend's son", or, to put it simply, "a suffocating one", from whom his friends and Tanechka herself turned their backs. In addition, they all found a new leader, Oleg, the best snowkayaker in Perm. And now, in order to get his friends and his beloved back, Ivan needs to defeat the snowkayaking champion not only in sports competitions, but also in the fight for his best friends.
