Elizaveta Shukova

Young Belarusian lad does not want to come back to Belarus after his educational visa is over. However, the circumstances forced him to do that. He reveals his native country once again. American dream turns into Belarusian one.

Fall of 1941. Freshly graduated from school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteers for a partisan unit. During an assignment, her comrades are ambushed, and she is captured by the Nazis. She endures hours of grueling interrogations and horrendous torture, but defiantly refuses to divulge any information that would compromise other units’ partisan missions. She doesn’t even tell her captors her real name. Zoya’s sacrifice was not in vain; it ignited fire in the hearts of millions of people and became the symbol of selfless heroism during WWII. She is one of the most celebrated heroes of that time.

18-year-old sniper Jamila, a graduate of a military weapons school, volunteers on the Kalinin Front in Belarus, as her lover is fighting on one of the war fronts. Jamila undergoes combat training and is fully trained in the process. He endures all hardships and struggles and fights valiantly, but is wounded and captured by the Germans. As events unfold, Jamila finds her lover, who turns out to be a triple agent working undercover for the Nazis. He rescues Jamila and sneaks her through the forest, where they are stopped by Belarusian partisans.

Popular blogger Vlad tries to attract attention to his concert in an original way - he puts himself up for auction. The lot immediately goes to the son of a rich businessman. Now Vlad is obliged to entertain Borya for a whole week. All attempts to break the contract run into huge fines, and then Vlad decides to really piss off Borya and make a video blog out of his life. In response, Borya arranges more and more new challenges for him.

Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Lieutenant Adi Sharipov, together with his platoon, cover the retreat of the regimental headquarters and remain surrounded, behind enemy lines. The enemy drives the squad into the swamp. Fear of the unknown, despondency and doubt haunt the fighters until they realize that waiting and inaction will destroy the squad faster than enemy bullets.

Vasya and Batya have lived in the village all their lives. But one not extinguished goby of the negligent Batya leaves his son and father on the street without money and a house. In desperation, they drive to the city and find the only place where they can be 24 hours a day - a fitness club. Now a rural couple will have to become their own in the world of smoothies and Pilates and show the locals what village fitness is. And, of course, find your love.

10-year-old Vladik is a genius of neural networks and a master at getting rid of nannies. When his mother urgently needs to go on a business trip, he has to go to the village to visit his grandfather, whom he has never seen in his life. Vladik dreams of returning to the city and getting into an important IT competition, and his grandfather has no intention of following his lead. Each of them is sure that they can easily outsmart the other, but this meeting will change them both.

Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Chernobyl, behind the wheel of a truck, in order to smuggle contaminated steel. The conflicts with Viktor escalate, and Elena is increasingly captivated by the zone's deceptive beauty...

A young couple, grieving the recent death of their daughter, move to the countryside where they are troubled by their experience of tragedy and the dark past of their new home.

Five short stories about the residents of a modern metropolis, about the search for truth, love, hope, meaning and one’s place in life.