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A closed schoolboy, Miron, has no friends, his parents constantly quarrel, and his grandfather is completely immersed in his own affairs. At school they make fun of him and don't want to play basketball because of his hearing aid.
The successful life of Mikhail, a Moscow lawyer, turns upside down in one day — a woman from the past, his first love, the daughter of a Gypsy baron Diana, appears in his life. She asks to get their daughter Yana out of prison, after which she promises to disappear forever from his life and keep his main secret. After all, Mikhail pretends to be another person. In fact, he is the gypsy Mihai Demeter, who 16 years ago was expelled from the camp and separated from his beloved. Mihai returns to the camp where he grew up in order to save his daughter, whose existence he did not know, and meet himself. Mihai will have to answer himself the question — who is he really, and where is his home — in the camp or in Moscow.
It is difficult to call the primitive era of human history a paradise like the biblical Eden. Instead of a quiet life, two tribes living along the banks of the same wide river face severe danger every day. The Chief's tribe is losing ground due to the weakness and inexperience of their leader, who wants to be a friend to everyone. But the tribe of "jerks", led by the Leader, is at the peak of its strength and lives in prosperity. Therefore, one of the Chief's hunters escapes to the competitors, and the Chief's people joyfully accept him. But few of the savages understand what is really happening on the other side.
Professional burnout plays a cruel joke on the author of fortune cookies. Instead of vanilla slogans, he sends harsh threats from his script "Bloody Massacre in Mytishchi" to production. It turns out that the cookies are intended for a corporate party of a mafia group.
Yug Kipen is a tight—lipped, modest boy raised by his grandmother. Yug's mother died when he was three years old, and he never saw his father. Everything changes when, on his 14th birthday, Yug discovers the money his father sent in his grandmother's closet. From this moment begins the story of the great journey of the South in search of his father. Potential fathers are scattered all over Russia. The South will have to cross the whole country to meet everyone. He will visit the most beautiful corners of our country, and of course, he will see the main attraction of Russia — people! It is not easy for a 14-year-old teenager to make such a journey, in principle, and even more difficult for the South, because he has a bunch of phobias that he will have to overcome every time.
The story of the express growing up of three friends and a boy, Leni, with an autism spectrum disorder, who, by coincidence, go to St. Petersburg together. On this journey, everything that can go wrong goes wrong. Everything is here for the first time: the first love, the first responsibility, and the first cruel life lessons.
Mara, an ancient pagan spirit, hunts a group of teenagers taking their body parts to be reborn. A disillusioned and desperate investigator has to face his deepest fears to save the teenagers.
Kira is 36. She works at the Pulkovo Airport call centre and lives with her younger sister Vera and her daughters. A couple years ago, their mother kicked the sisters out of the house and later disappeared. It's time for Kira to accept that her mother is dead and move on: get the death certificate, claim her inheritance and start living separately from her sister and nieces. A new life awaits her. But Kira does not want to change anything and dreams only of her mother coming back.
Rita, a fragile-looking chemistry teacher, remains out of work for having connections with a student. But thanks to her skills, she manages to earn easy money by cleaning the cottage. However, this cottage turns out to be a crime scene, and Rita herself finds herself in the epicenter of criminal showdowns by local bandits. However, Rita is not so simple — all this time she has been living undercover on someone else's passport. A few years ago, she already had to flee from her native St. Petersburg to a seaside town to save her life. After all, Rita is the only living carrier of the formula that her pursuers really need.
Former classmates gather in the district center of Warmaly for the twentieth anniversary of graduation. The glorious anniversary is overshadowed by a car caught from the pond, which has been lying at the bottom since the memorable graduation. Inside the car there is a corpse and an unusual stone that turns out to be a meteorite. The investigation draws everyone gathered to celebrate into a funnel: it exacerbates old conflicts, confuses the already difficult relationships of former classmates, their teachers and parents. Everyone learns something shocking about themselves and others: who they were in the 90s, who they became and what they are capable of in the present.
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
