1911, A graduate of the Institute of Noble Maidens, Sasha Meshcherskaya returns to a small provincial town. The well-being of her family is based on her relationship with her loving uncle, the owner of the arms factory Nikolai Shumilov. Sashenka's parents: Prince Ivan Sergeevich Meshchersky and Maria Ilyinichna dream of their daughter's early marriage, and she herself dreams of a brilliant career as an architect. Wanting to please her parents, Sasha makes new acquaintances and instantly plunges into a whirlpool of intrigue, where political interests are at stake above personal passions. Cold-blooded murders and blackmail, intricacies of conspiracies, daring provocateurs eluding detection - all this captivates the enthusiastic schoolgirl, who experiences mortal melancholy from the paucity of life prospects. Without noticing it, Sasha becomes an ideal target for terrorist hypnosis.

An ambitious professor of psychiatry, Viktor Meshchersky, conducts a dangerous psychological experiment in which, under false pretenses, he locks victims and their abusers in the basement, hiding his true goals. The subsequent investigation will reveal the real motives of the professor, and will tie together the confusing stories of all participants in the cruel experiment.

Six friends are just starting their adult life. They fall in love, dream, and make plans for the future. When a tragedy strikes troubling issues and secrets are revealed, and their parents wonder if they know their children at all.

25-year-old Vera has everything she dreamed of: family, excellent education, and fiance Igor. Soon enough, Vera's high school sweetheart Anton appears again in her life. She understands that her love for him is still there and refuses to marry Igor. Soon, the former fiance tells Vera that Anton is a criminal who has participated in a robbery and even a murder! Who to believe?

They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A sudden disaster ruins the life of a 17-year-old girl Sahsa. Her parents and a two-year-old sister Dasha are burnt to death in their own house. It turns out that gangsters threatened Sahsa's father. They made him sell his successful business for nothing. Sahsa is at a loss. She has no home, no money, no relatives. She can't live in her native town any more. The only thing that makes her move ahead is to find out what happened to her family. Why the remains of her little sister haven't been found?

A group of Soviet spies performs missions of special importance during World War II.

This Colonel Sergei Dedov aka Ded in a courageous performance by Boris Galkin — again on NTV! Some time has passed since the last meeting with him. Dedov's granddaughter studies at the Institute, meets with a young man, going to marry him, he himself Sergey waiting for a teaching position at the Suvorov military school.

Alexander Dronov, the actor, didn't have many success in his life. But despite all the troubles he has an important life mission - he's the man at the window.

Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.

The film is a modern adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's unforgettable play "Profitable Place".