Backup Copy

Maks is a typical Moscow teenager from a wealthy family: spoiled, stubborn, childish. Maks is alone - both internally and externally, and he experiences this state painfully. Maks's mother is the chairman of the Committee on Family and Children in the Duma and is preparing for another re-election. An authoritative, decisive woman, she planned Maks's fate for years to come: prestigious studies, prestigious work, career - but she herself forgot the last time she had a heart-to-heart talk with her son.

A Soviet intellectual is engaged in science and medicine, writing for himself. His only son decides to leave the country forever, breaking his heart and ruining his career and social standing. Having lost everything, he decides to write a novel about Dostoevsky, the subject he's been dreaming about his whole life. Like his beloved writer, he must lose completely in order to be reborn.

The boy Igor receives a dog as a gift for his birthday and runs away from home with it. But now the two of them must save Igor's father, an astronaut, from death.

An unprecedented epidemic of rabies is breaking out in the taiga. Infected wolves become more and more ferocious, and even the slightest bite brings certain death. At the same time, a desperate father decides to forcibly isolate his son in one of the hunting lodges in order to save him from addiction. Soon, he and several local residents will have to fight not only with a rabid pack, but also with the most dangerous predator of the forest.