Bohdan Hatsyliak

December 31st Express was supposed to be an ordinary, quiet rail run, at least that's what conductor Mykola Ivanovych thought. However, a comically chaotic group of passengers including a runaway bride and angry accountant upset a retiring train conductor's peaceful last journey.

The Serediuk household in Yablunivka sits nigh empty and its proud patriarch Vasyl Serediuk decides that, to end his loneleyness, he'll have to resort to drastic measures, faking a chronic condition and inviting all of his friends and family members over for "one last mutual Christmas". But, his lies might end up costing him his family.

By chance, on Christmas Eve, completely different passengers with their own problems and dreams board the same train, and now they all have to arrange Christmas dinner right in the dining car. While waiting for the first star, all the passengers come together as one big Ukrainian family. And miracles begin to happen.

The Seredyuk family is finally at peace: a series of high-profile weddings are behind them, and the annoying neighbor Taras has disappeared from the horizon, unable to stand the family's harassment. Vasyl and Halyna can finally spend more time with each other. The harmony is disrupted by their neighbor Oksana, who has brought a new husband back from the resort, who is as it turns out Vasyl's former classmate, who had been bothering him all through his school years. From then on, a new confrontation begins.

December 31st Express was supposed to be an ordinary, quiet rail run, at least that's what conductor Mykola Ivanovych thought. However, a comically chaotic group of passengers including a runaway bride and angry accountant upset a retiring train conductor's peaceful last journey.

The Serediuk household in Yablunivka sits nigh empty and its proud patriarch Vasyl Serediuk decides that, to end his loneleyness, he'll have to resort to drastic measures, faking a chronic condition and inviting all of his friends and family members over for "one last mutual Christmas". But, his lies might end up costing him his family.

By chance, on Christmas Eve, completely different passengers with their own problems and dreams board the same train, and now they all have to arrange Christmas dinner right in the dining car. While waiting for the first star, all the passengers come together as one big Ukrainian family. And miracles begin to happen.

The Seredyuk family is finally at peace: a series of high-profile weddings are behind them, and the annoying neighbor Taras has disappeared from the horizon, unable to stand the family's harassment. Vasyl and Halyna can finally spend more time with each other. The harmony is disrupted by their neighbor Oksana, who has brought a new husband back from the resort, who is as it turns out Vasyl's former classmate, who had been bothering him all through his school years. From then on, a new confrontation begins.