The plot is based on real events described by Ivan Franko in a series of criminal reports for the newspaper "Kurjer Lwowski" in 1889. The writer used the motives of these events in the story "The Foundations of Society".

Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.

A lonely man works as a model for students studying fine arts. He meets his love in the person of a young student at the end of his life.

Lionia is searching for a personal meaning in life. Meanwhile, others reproach him for being unmarried and having no money. One day, after returning to a riverside settlement, he witnesses motorboat owners rudely exploiting the local residents. He then sets out to ferry people across free of charge.

Dramatic, lyrical and production problems in the life of village people.

About the everyday life of soldiers in the airborne units of the Soviet Army.

Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”