Fabula Films

Romance, Comedy in Russian language

A young Russian woman, trying to make it in the big city, is hired for an off-the-books government operation, which involves seducing and later exposing a number of prominent political opposition figures.

When Vera’s husband realizes that she will never be able to bear him children, he leaves her for her best friend. Struggling to recover from this betrayal, Vera takes in a homeless orphan she finds on the street and decides to adopt him. She is unaware that the boy, Vanya, is the heir to a vast fortune—and that he is being hunted. A man she happens to meet, a lawyer also named Ivan, offers to help her with the adoption process. However, upon meeting Vanya, he realizes that this is the very boy being sought by his own clients—guardians who are after the child’s inheritance. Now, Ivan and Vera face a difficult choice: should they act according to the letter of the law, or according to their conscience?

Lydia Nikitina has achieved everything in life by herself. She brought up her daughter alone, and raised her business from scratch. Now she owns a small chain of confectionery shops. Lydia is certainly being courted by men, but she does not see anyone among them, with whom she could tie her life. She devotes herself to her daughter Tanya. But lately Tanya quarrels with her mother more and more often because of her husband Artem, whom Lida considers a slacker and a slacker. He also hopes to open his own business, though not without the financial help of his mother-in-law. Suddenly, Lida's examination reveals a serious illness....