Nikolay Mulakov

After 10 years of living abroad, immigrant Elena is tantalisingly close to receiving her citizenship. But as the government expands control over its people, a new mind reading technology is used to filter out undesirable applicants whose innermost thoughts and values do not fully align with them.

The heroine of the film is a young woman from Uzbekistan, fleeing from store slavery and dreaming of returning her son.

He wants to break free from himself or tear himself away from the world. He screams hysterically, eats roses, plunders treasures, and sacred signs appear on his chest. Christ or just another man tired of life. A new prophet of a new faith. QR.

Mukhabbat, an Uzbek immigrant, works at a convenience store on the outskirts of Moscow. Just like the rest of the immigrants at the store, she is forced to work without getting paid and endure mental and physical abuse, until she overcomes her fear one day and takes her fate into her own hands.

A monotonous and predictable life of a supermarket backdoor guard is forever changed after an eccentric drag queen, named Hurricane Rita, with her daring escapades turns the guard's night shift routine into a night of exciting adventures.

The Russian president decides to go on vacation. To do this, he changes his appearance with the help of prosthetics and make-up, but the hapless artist takes the cover image of the first magazine he sees laying around, and now the President looks exactly like the narcissistic marginal Valera who's hiding from the collectors. Ironically, the FSO's vigilant employees put surveillance on the wrong subject and while the real head of state plunges into commonness, goes on a road trip with fellow traveler Zina, Valera gladly enjoys the presidential service, simultaneously voicing opinions on foreign and domestic policy issues ...

Five unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.

International scandal: the Russian Embassy is leaving Libya. The reason was the murder of a Libyan officer by a Russian citizen. In the heroine of the reports, the girl recognizes her roommate in the student dormitory. A few years later, by chance in the Web Archive, she finds a blocked diary, which opens her neighbor from a completely unexpected side.

After missing her train, a woman returns home to find a presence which shouldn’t be there — and crosses an irreversible line.