Dina’s mother moves to live with her daughter and almost immediately tension and conflicts arise between her and her son-in-law Pasha. Mother is trying to open Dina’s eyes on her husband, but she does not want to listen to anything. Mother decides to go to the country and asks her son-in-law to help transport things. But she immediately returns and admits that by accident ... she killed Pasha. Now Dina and mother live in constant fear that everything will open. And at the same time, they gradually learn more and more unpleasant and mysterious details about Pasha. And when it is not known why the mother is dying, and Vedernikov’s operas come to the apartment, Dina is already on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Young Mitya, comparing his father's home photo with the picture in the newspaper, realized that he had to go to the Arctic coast to finally meet his father. But the wait for the meeting turns out to be long, because the young man himself is not ready for this, and then, having personally learned about life at the polar reserve airfield, he is no longer so irreconcilable and does not attach such crucial importance to the meeting with his father.

一位年轻作家送了一本短篇小说集到莫斯科一家大出版社，结果，书中的四个故事潜移默化的影响了四个读者的生活，现实开始变得荒诞，甚至惊心动魄……

The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman whose village is razed and people massacred.