Ilya Sherstobitov
Tired of the routine, the President decides to go on vacation in splendid isolation to rest in the Crimea, and at the same time freely communicate with the people. Realizing that it would be difficult to remain incognito and escape from caring colleagues, he resorted to make-up services. But his new appearance exactly coincides with the appearance of Valery from N-sk, who is hiding from the collectors on a voucher for his mother in the Crimean sanatorium ...
Young film director in the shooting period of his first feature film doesn’t even guess how much will cost realization of his artistic conception. Shooting of bedroom scene will be the real disaster for all the crew, takes all director’s nerves and almost destroy his private life.
Mother is eighty, Seva - sixty.That's the whole family right there. Seva spent his life looking after his mother. While he was at her beck and call, he barely had any time for himself and ended up childless with no soul to turn to. The inevitable happens - mother dies. Without her life loses its meaning. On top of this he finds out the story about his birth. The unbearable truth turns his life upside-down. Questions keep piling on. How to forgive? How to find humility and the strength to carry on?
A group of journalists working for German TV comes to Kazakhstan to shoot a documentary film about “the sleeping sickness”. At the same time, a group of Chinese scientists is working there, trying to find a scientific explanation for the phenomenon. Is it a mystique, or is there a rational explanation for what is happening? This mystery detective story is complemented by an unexpected romantic subject line between a Chinese researcher and a German journalist. Only the son of a local shaman knows “who will fall asleep, while someone grand wakes up”.