Young police lieutenant Kozrev investigates robbery from fish kolhoz. Suspect is criminal Chuma who hiding himself in the forest.

Yar is a place that keeps people, and they can't part with it. If they leave, they will die. The only one who wants to escape from the Yar is our main character Karev. But leaving the Yar, he thereby breaks with all traditional values, and unwittingly becomes the cause of the death of people dear to him...

Tatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with a diva’s behavior, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. To escape the everyday slumber she seeks companionship of young men. She provides shelter and becomes involved in their problems. Her ex-boyfriend has married a younger woman. Tatyana is forced to keep her loneliness hidden because of her role as hostess.

America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie...

Казалось бы, и аристократы, и дворяне, и деньги и поместье, а все равно - и на мелкие подлости вполне способны, и бунт поднять хотят, и на убийство друг друга подстрекают, и убивают, и девочек насилуют... Гадость человеческая предстает во всей красе, во многих ярких ее проявлениях, причем максимально точно. Конечно, роман не только о мерзости. И о русском бунте, и об интеллигенции русской бестолковой... и о любви, предательстве... О многом. Читать не перечитать. Этот фильм, словно книга, бережный к классику и современный.