Industrial city in the province. Having lost her best friend - her beloved dog Herring, Sonya could not find a place for herself. Mom Sonya got a boyfriend - a policeman Yevgeny Ivanovich, and mom was not up to the dog ... The chief architect of the region, part-time teacher at the Polytechnic Institute Yegor Vladimirovich was tired of his wife Katya, who abandoned her housework and practiced yoga all day long. Meanwhile, their son Yegor was threatened with expulsion from school for poor progress. Yegor Vladimirovich was not allowed to pass by the student Anya Timofeeva, who was in love with him, writing letters full of tenderness and love to him. Seeing that he was throwing her next letter into the trash, Anya decided to commit suicide. But Sonya, who happened to be nearby, prevented her from hanging herself in a wasteland. The girls are talking...

The main character works as a model and like many women who are related to art, she is keen with struggle for the women rights and other trends. But those are just attempts to compensate the lack of the personal life. However, fate gives her the chance and sends her a modest man, so different from her bohemian environment.

Documentary filmmaker Tatiana is working on a film about former European boxing champion Vadim Larin. As a director, she wants him to return to the ring, which would make her film more optimistic. Larin himself, touched by Tatiana's attention and in love with her, is ready to respond to this wish. However, a victorious return to the ring did not work out...

A certain Kostyleva, who was fired (cut) from her job, threatens to commit suicide. Her colleague suggests cutting him. The self-sacrifice was misunderstood by the wife of this employee. Out of jealousy, she decides to leave her husband and leave home. And he suddenly finds out that a grandfather is coming from America to visit, whom (what if he is a millionaire!) must be greeted properly - it is not every day that relatives come from the USA. The grandfather arrives in an antediluvian car to "die cheerfully" in his homeland, in Russia. They bought a coffin and a plot in the cemetery, but problems arose with death. It turned out that life is just beginning. It was in vain that the grandfather gave all the money to a sanatorium for homeless dogs.

In May 1941, a young instructor of the Komsomol Regional Committee of Belovezhskaya Pushcha Andrei Dyomushkin was invited to the graduation party of the Moscow Theatre School to create a professional theatre in the city. The war has crossed out all plans. Now he, along with the course of graduates, will have to go through the war and be the commander of the front acting fraternity in the current army "A Special Unit"...