This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
Max Pavlov - talented, confident and a little ... desperate. He does not like ordinary life and quiet work. Max is an extreme climber who single-handedly conquered the peaks of the Pamirs and the Himalayas. He is successful in business and in love, loyal to his girlfriend Marina. He has a best friend and partner - Lyokha.
The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.
Lidia Sheveleva, a correspondent for the newspaper "Time, Forward!", becomes a pawn in a big game, having received from an anonymous source compromising materials on Yegor Shubin, head of the legal service of a large holding company. On the assignment of her superiors, she writes a denunciatory article about a despicable thief with "the appearance of an English lord". Justice triumphs - the management of the holding company suspends Shubin from business and gives him a week to try to restore his good name ... But fate likes to joke, and it accidentally collides Sheveleva and Shubin again. At the close acquaintance with Yegor Lydia begins to doubt his guilt, and recent enemies begin their own investigation, despite the dangers and risking their lives.
Having decided to celebrate the New Year in the village, Tatyana goes on a trip in an old car along a snowy road. Two kilometers from the destination, her car hopelessly stalled and blocked the road of an SUV, from which a smug and nervous Anatoly emerged. As a result, Tolya goes to the village on foot, and in the house he finds his own mother with her boyfriend. It soon turns out that Anatoly's mother's lover is Tatyana's father. This is how the story of Anatoly and Tatyana's relationship begins.
The story begins on New Year's Eve. The editor of the newspaper Orest Orlov offers the successful 35-year-old correspondent Ksenia to take a candid interview with the famous Canadian hockey player Denis Kravtsov. But everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance, because the journalist and the athlete had an affair 10 years ago...
A Few Love Stories based on classic novels by Giovanni Boccaccio, Anton Francesco Grazzini and Agnolo Firenzuola.
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".
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