The series is set in 1961. Cameraman Viktor Khrustalyov is in a difficult situation; he is suspected of being involved in the death of his friend, talented screenwriter Kostya Parshin, who committed suicide during a drinking-bout. The authorities try to put Khrustalyov in prison by any means. Viktor needs to shoot the comedy "The Girl and the Brigadier" in order to get permission to make the film "Shards" after the wonderful scenario left from his deceased screenwriter friend. Young director Yegor Myachin wants to adаpt this screenplay. Khrustalyov arranges him as a trainee to the venerable director Krivitsky for a comedy. In the same film act Khrustalev's ex-wife Inga and his young sweetheart Maryana, with whom Yegor Myachin is also in love.

Adventurous adventures of a team who know each other only by nicknames and have never seen each other in real life. They successfully gutted the e-wallets of the rich until they got caught because of one mistake. The guys get to know each other personally and they have a choice: go to jail or work in the interests of the country. The team chooses the latter, and from that moment on, their lives change. Now it's not crazy money that's at stake, but the freedom and security of the whole world, which the heroes will protect in all corners of the planet. There is a place for love and struggle for leadership in the team. Will they be able to continue working when it turns out that their boss was a teenager all this time, and there was a mole inside the team?

After another "successful" case of catching a thief, Mukhich and Kristina are fired, and they open their own detective agency in Barvikha. The partners take on a variety of cases: from spying on the mistress of a rich entrepreneur to protecting the director of an IT company, into whose consciousness someone is trying to penetrate in a dream. Mukhich and Kristina will do everything to ensure that no crime in Barvikha remains unsolved, and old acquaintances will help them in their investigations.

Graduates of the psychology faculty Vika, Tanya and Alina know firsthand what "cognitive helplessness", "impostor syndrome" and "demon of jealousy" are. However, after meeting ten years later, the girls realize that Freud and other luminaries of psychology do not save their personal lives. Alina starts fleeting affairs, Vika has become a tyrant in her own family, and Tanya has acquired a baggage of complexes. The friends got close again to help each other with professional advice when the diagnosis should be made not to the patient, but to herself.

The plot is tied to unusual works of art. Each of the paintings depicts a sleeping man, and the soul is enclosed in the canvas itself. This curse came to the modern world from an artist who loves his wife to madness. When she was dying, the master, by the power of his feelings, imprisoned her soul in a portrait. This legend inspired businessman Pavel Voronov to collect a collection of paintings with sleeping heroes. Photographer Kostya and art critic Agnes help him in this. The artist Alexey Tikhonov is also hunting for unusual paintings, who dreams of continuing the work of the master and learning how to enclose souls in portraits.