According to the novel of the same name by Tatiana Ustinova.

The main characters of the film are three friends who work together – Stepanov, Chernov and Belov. Their construction company is thriving, receiving a new order, but around the construction of extraordinary events – first strikes, then an accident with a worker, the death of a vigilante ... In addition, each of the friends hides something from each other, excuses give rise to suspicion and distrust ... Will their friendship withstand the challenge? And will the perpetrators of the killings be found?

Odessa, 1980. Kostik Voloshin (27) has a dream to escape across the border because he doesn’t want to build socialism. Kostik leads a double life – a position at the Research Institute serves as a cover for his fraudulent activity, in which Kostik is an absolute professional.

Fleeing from the violence of a steep card dealer, Gogi, to whom he owed a large sum, he goes to Odessa, where he came from. His goal is to earn a decent amount as quickly as possible to leave the country. Our hero commits all scams under the cover of Balaban (45), who is known in all of Odessa. Balaban helps Kostik for one reason – twenty years ago, he could not expose people who substituted Kostik’s father. The father was charged with grand larceny of state property, and he died of a heart attack because he could not survive the shame.

However, Balaban’s best friend and protector becomes his number one enemy when Kostya learns that he was behind the slander that resulted in the death of his father. And now Balaban is going to make Kostik leave the city, because he is not going to share with him the woman he loves, Maya, who has developed a whirlwind affair with Kostik. Kostik decides to make Balaban pay for the blood of his father by all means.

A film portrait of the Ukrainian writer, People's Deputy of Ukraine V. Yavorivskyi (1942-2021): during the plenary sessions of the Verkhovna Rada, during the days of the Chornobyl events, at rallies, at home, he gives interviews and shares his memories.

L. M. Kravchuk, V. K. Symonenko, R. M. Lubkivskyi are shown. Footage from the film epic "Chernobyl. A Chronicle of Hard Weeks".

After the death of his father, Vlad Rudych wants to move from a small village in the mountains to the city to enter an economic university, but his older brother Stepan is categorically against it. At night, a fire breaks out in the house, in which Stepan dies. Due to a quarrel that took place the day before between Vlad and Stepan, it was his fellow villagers who suspected arson and murder. But due to lack of evidence, the case is being closed.

Lisa Kameneva dreams of entering an art school and doing what she loves most – drawing. But her strict father sees her future only as a successor to the family business. One day Lisa runs away from home and, escaping from hooligans, meets Vlad, who is protecting the girl. Later, Lisa marries him. It seems that her future is cloudless. She has a wonderful education, a beautiful house, a smart and hard-working man. But Liza and Vlad will have to go through very difficult trials.