Kirill Meshalkin

A story about a provincial theater, where the main character is trying to understand his relationships with his wife, colleagues and his own life.

For many years Katerina has worked at a civilian registry office. Every day she binds together loving hearts while her own family life has been on hold for some time. Katerina’s husband has been in a coma for 5 years and her whole family has been living as though in a coma too.

August 1960. Director Nikolai Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. The construction of grandiose decorations begins in the pavilion. Berentsev himself develops models of planets and spacecraft, comes up with special devices for combined filming. He tries to imagine and visualize something that no one has ever seen — life on other planets. He believes that fantasy should run ahead of science, but faces skepticism from colleagues and the scientific community. In the end, he himself begins to doubt whether his film is needed by the audience, why these dreams of Space, when there are so many unresolved problems on Earth.

Summer is coming in a small town on the Volga, and in the life of the self-confident and resourceful Sasha, it is a transitional time. At the age of 15, he is in a hurry to grow up, and growing up for him means earning and spending what he wants, sleeping with a girl from the next class and overcoming his enemy - a bully from the working outskirts.