Mariya Gangus

A young journalist, the daughter of a famous scientist, is trying to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a famous doctor, admired by her father - transplantologist Hematos.

A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library. The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...

A story about the life of several girls who came from outskirts of Ukrainian provincial town Makeevka to Moscow.

New Year’s Eve is filled with emotion in a communal Moscow apartment block.

A woman's view of the generation of thirty-year-old men, who fell to the lot of Afghanistan, and the "criminal revolution", and the drug wave, and AIDS...