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USSR, 1970s. Lena has a real talent for writing - her school essays reflect with incredible precision and warmth not only the world around her and her loved ones, but also her personal experiences, dreams, and hopes. Her mother works in documentary film, and she has her own problems and dreams. It so happened that the daughter's adolescence coincides with her mother's midlife crisis. The story of their touching relationship is told with a kind smile and notes of sadness.
The heroes of the almanac's stories are students who studied at the same institute in the 90s and lived together in a dormitory. Then many people left, their paths diverged and their lives turned out differently, but they did not lose touch and still communicate, help each other and share common problems. Fellow students meet 20 years later on the anniversary of their favorite teacher. But how many things will happen before this meeting…
Sasha lives his simple but cool life: he works as a bartender, meets a beautiful girl Laura, together they are preparing to move to Barcelona, where they are already waiting for their own apartment and their own bar, which Laura's parents bought for the couple. On the surface, everything looks perfect, but no one knows what difficulties are hidden in the depths. A few days before the move, Sasha learns that there was a woman who left him in the hospital thirty years ago. A young man who has grown up as an orphan gets a chance to see his mother for the first time. Acquaintance with this woman completely changes Sasha's life. On the threshold of her apartment, where he comes filled with desperate resentment, a lonely and sick woman appears, falling in front of a guy in an epileptic fit. Sasha sees a man who, probably, all these years was not easier than he was.
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Every summer for 11 years the Belyaevs' from Severodvinsk has been spending their vacation in Gelendzhik. The Northerners stay with their old friends in the same guesthouse. The long-term friendship of the families led to the fact that a young man, the son of the head of the "Northerners" family named Sasha, this summer, firmly decided to propose to Lyusya, the daughter of the head of the "Southerners" family ... Meanwhile, the Northerners' family is on the verge of divorce. Larisa is tired of tolerating her childish husband Seva Belyaev, who just can't grow up. The last straw was the news that Seva, before leaving on vacation, quit his job without telling anyone. The conflict within the family explodes, and Larisa announces to her husband that she intends to get a divorce ... The situation in the Southerners family is not easy either. It turns out that over this year Lyusya's father has found a new girlfriend - Madina.
Returning to his small town, after the army, Sanya Kuchin is trying to integrate into a peaceful civilian life: he gets a job as a security guard in the convenience store "Dream", achieves the heart of his former classmate and ... fights with the bourgeoisie, slovenliness, drunkenness and indifference of the local inhabitants. But real life is not an army in which everything is arranged clearly according to the charter, and very soon Sana will have to understand this ...
