Two childhood friends work in the same police department. Sergey Glukharov is an investigator, Denis Antoshin is an operative. An ordinary evening, which they decided to spend with friends in a restaurant, brought them a terrible surprise.

Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.

1993 - the story of one family suddenly turns out to be the history of the whole country. The relationship of painfully and inextricably linked husband and wife, emergency workers, and the growing up of their daughter against the backdrop of global change.

On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who dies. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Sobolev decides to compromise with his conscience and calls on a colleague to help him out. But the case turns out to be messy and when Sobolev finally changes his mind and tries to make up for his deed, it’s already too late…

A father and son go on a camping trip to enjoy the pristine nature and spend time together. When they stop for the night, the boy begins to hear strange voices and then disappears without a trace. In the course of long and desperate attempts to find his son, the father meets a hermit living in the forest wilderness. From him the man learns that the forest is full of ancient signs and lives by its own laws.

Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable!

A zombie apocalypse can happen tomorrow. But now there is a place where it is possible to escape.