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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.
June 21, 1941. Young lieutenant Kolya Pluzhnikov, having received an appointment to a permanent place of service, arrives in Brest. The crowded waiting rooms of the station and the crowd of people weighed down with luggage do not alarm the young man, filled with joyful hopes. Kolya hurries to the location of his unit - the Brest Fortress... The soldier does not have time to enlist in the personnel of the military, and at four in the morning artillery explosions are heard - the war has begun. He was not enlisted in the ranks of the military personnel of the Brest Fortress, but still took part in the first battle in his life, which lasted ten months.
A young submarine officer Andrei Korsakov loses his name, his fiancée, his freedom and survives by accident because of the treachery of his friends and a corrupt military prosecutor… Many years later he returns to his hometown – the city of his defeats – under a false name. Andrei makes a harsh plan of revenge on everyone responsible for the crash of his life. The former friends have no idea that their happy, carefree lives will come to an end soon, and they will have to pay the bills.
The year is 1953. Due to the mass amnesty, the criminal situation in the USSR is tense. At the same time, Ivan Astafyev, a former commander of a reconnaissance platoon, who was released from prison, returns to his hometown of Gorky. And immediately becomes a victim of an attack by bandits, and then a false accusation of beating the attackers. Ivan's pre—war acquaintance, Captain Shvedov, helps out of trouble, who gets him a job at the Dynamo sports society to train policemen in hand-to-hand combat.
The beautiful Sonya, the leading actress of the provincial theater, comes to Moscow. She is thirty years old and she understands that she does not have much time to realize her dream and become a real star. After another unsuccessful test, Sonya falls asleep in one of the Mosfilm pavilions, since she has nowhere to live. When the security guard tries to force her out of the film studio, Masha comes to her aid. Masha, at twenty-eight, is in no hurry. After graduating from the theater school, Masha recovered and does not feel confident in her body. Having chosen the position “my body is my business”, Masha finds herself in the safe world of cartoon voice acting. Masha is kind, with a good sense of humor.
Kolya gets a tattoo with the Bernaki logo on his forehead and becomes the face of an advertising campaign. Kolya's friends consider this a betrayal: they were all fired from Bernaki without paying their salaries. Kolya will meet the same fate, because the results of marketing research turned out to be bad. But Kolya follows the principle.
Shy graduate student Dmitry Neretin goes to the front to serve as a translator. After several weeks of intense fighting, a lull begins. Battalion scouts advance to the front line and return with a prisoner — a German captain who mysteriously dies at night. Neretin finds out that the captured enemy was killed right in their location. Now Dmitry will have to figure out a traitor among his associates who did not allow the prisoner to betray the secrets of the German army.
Odintsovo's reconnaissance group, which includes Ivan Rodin, is making its way through the deep rear with a special task — to ferry a young man named Savichev across the front line. Who he is, from where and how he got to the Odintsovo partisans, are not reported.
Medea is an intelligent, highly educated woman who gives up on her dreams when she falls for rich businessman Alexei. When the pair have two children, she patiently waits for him to divorce his wife, and as he decides to emigrate from Russia to Israel, she meekly follows him. But when he shuns her for having committed a crime to protect him, her blind love turns into burning rage.
