House Arrest

Russia is the richest country with a lot of oil, gas and problems. A humorous satirical show consisting of all-Russian social and everyday realities, “Once Upon a Time in Russia” does not solve any of them. It laughs at them.

Olga brings up two children from different marriages, cares about her alcoholic father and tries to adjust her personal life. The eldest daughter Anya is studying in a vocational school, she thinks that she is the only adequate member of the family, and in her life everything will be different. The younger son Timofey, whose father returned to the first family in Azerbaijan, believes that he is already a man, although he is only 11 years old. Olga's father, Yuri Gennadievich, a former football player, drinks hard and constantly lies, which often leads to scrape. And sister Lena is trying to live at the expense of men - mostly married. Eternally saving relatives from troubles, Olga lives a strange life and rarely thinks of herself until Grisha, a young and positive driver of the “Sable” hearse, falls in love with her.

Ksenia has ambition, lots of it. She wants to make it big in hospitality. Chasing her goal she comes to Moscow where she meets a new eccentric hotel owner of The Grand hotel. Not someone to let the truth stand in the way of an opportunity, Ksenia presents herself as a professional, ready for a management position. Her lies are caught out and she’s packed off to the rather unglamorous laundry to begin her career in hospitality. Will Ksenia be able to tame her adventurous nature and to fit into the tight-knit hotel team at The Grand? Or will she blow it?

Sometimes it seems to parents that their child has been replaced... and two Ivanov families from the south of Russia are simply sure of this: after 16 years, namesakes will find out that their children were confused in the maternity hospital. What if your beloved son is not really your own, but your blood is being raised by strangers? And in a luxury that you never even dreamed of. And how will he accept his new, but painfully poor relatives?