Mary is a young person who lives in luxury and burns her life through a successful marriage by calculation. Her husband, Fedor, is a successful businessman who gives almost all his business strength. The couple has no children, and on the advice of the secretary, Mary seeks help from a Buryat shaman. The shaman gives the main character a mascot of supposedly red pearls to attract her love. The mascot attracts young rider Gregory to Mary. With it, she has a tumultuous romance into which she plunges headlong.

Passion and fire absorb heroes. They are literally blind in their love. Mary's life becomes meaningful for the first time. However, you should be more careful with your wishes. Mary is happy, she is pregnant and wants to leave her husband. But something went wrong, and the red pearls did not give the effect that the heroine expected. She loses Gregory and has a baby.

The Battle of Zbarazh is one of the most difficult and tragic moments in the liberation war of the Ukrainian people against the rule of noble Poland (1648-1657). Led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the Cossack army seized Zbarazh in a close siege. The Polish nobility, led by fierce enemy of Ukraine Yarema Vyshnevetsky, was trapped: food supplies ended, famine began, illnesses began; Yarema sent dozens of messengers to the Polish King with pleas for military aid, but none of the messengers could break through the Cossack siege.

It would seem that soon Cossack Cossacks will celebrate the final victory, but an unforeseen event happened – the alliance with the Crimean Khan turned for treason. Bohdan Khmelnitsky was faced with a difficult choice – to take the expensive victory over Poland, drown Ukraine in blood, or to accept the humiliating and extremely disadvantageous terms of a peace agreement. The enormous military casualties, the betrayal of the closest allies, and the personal tragedy of the family were just a part of the torment suffered at the time by the great Hetman of Ukraine.

Based on Ernest Hemingway's novel The Garden of Eden.

1920s. A couple of newlyweds arrived on the island of Lesbos to spend their honeymoon there. Phil, a budding artist, and Sappho, the daughter of an American millionaire, are looking forward to an unforgettable vacation. The married couple rents a house to enjoy the amorous pleasures, but suddenly their vacation is broken by Helen's daughter, a daughter of professor of archeology, Russian-immigrant Vladimir Orlov, who works on the island. Helena entices Sappho into single-sex love and forms a love triangle. Sappho does not hide from her husband sleeping with Helen, and relations are increasingly strained.

During her stay on the island of Sappho has changed a lot and has introduced herself as the most ancient Greek poetess Sappho. Subsequently, Sappho allowed Phil to make love to Helena. After much jealousy and not understanding her feelings, Sappho finished herself by jumping off a cliff. Phil and Helen went to America together.

History is the first. Shortly before the start of the performance, the troupe actor hanged himself right on stage. The general nervous condition is exacerbated by this news, adding to the fuss. However, life goes on, theater workers are scenery, actors are preparing for the performance. All tickets sold, full house, no one is going to cancel the performance. The dead was taken down. Everyone around almost forgot about the corpse of a colleague. In the hustle and bustle of preparation for the performance, they only deal with their problems. The police are in no hurry. Before her untimely arrival, another corpse appears on the scene – a scene worker dropped the hammer on top of another employee. The third bell rang and the audience filled the hall. The performance begins, and with it the next novella.

The story of a friend. Andriy Andreevich was very rich, he lived in a large, luxurious house. The daughter, in her misery, lived with him. Widowed, the man felt an unusual, terrible loneliness. The elderly lovelorn began to care for his daughter, trying to get her to become a mistress, cohabitant, wife. To stop her father's harassment, Masha brings her friend Alice. The old man locked the door, hid the key. New Year's Eve was crazy, unpredictable, unusual, but it brought this strange couple a sense of love, salvation from loneliness. Andriy Andreevich realized that Alice was the woman of his dreams.