Kamancha could die in the Chechen war, could die from wounds or drugs. But he survived and saw the light. He says about himself, "I was a creature, but I want to become God's creation."

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Those who come back, Russia meets differently.

The protagonist of the film is Danila Zaitsev, an Old Believer born in China, a citizen of Argentina who has traveled almost the whole world. What was he looking for? What were you striving for? Why was he saved? Danila wrote a book about his travels that won a prize in Russia.

On the border of Russia and Kazakhstan, on the salt lake Baskunchak at the beginning of the 21st century, people had to make a choice. Maybe the most important thing in life. Having become shareholders of their enterprise, they could breathe new life into it and confidently build their future, but they preferred another, more profitable, at first glance, option.

The protagonist of the film, Yuly Alekseev, teaches children to play the violin and tries to make their world, and his own, a little kinder. It turns out this is not always the case, but the teacher does not give up.

Most researchers consider Andrei Platonov's novel "Chevengur" a great dystopia, but there are people who are sure that there was a settlement with the same or a similar name, for example, Kuchugury, and with the same fate. And in general, there is a view of Platonov as a brilliant documentary filmmaker who did not compose anything, but only wrote down how it really was.

Yuri Vella is a Nenets hunter and poet who fights against the oil concern for his ancestral lands.

In 2005, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of economic crimes and sentenced to 11 years in prison. But this film is not about the most famous political prisoner. This is the reaction of the Russian population to the arrest of Khodorkovsky, recorded conversations on the streets of different cities with the first passers-by. People's mercilessness, the desire for blood, the joyful readiness to administer lynching themselves, saving the fatherland, over all who are smarter, richer, freer, over Jews and people of a different mentality, such is a frighteningly objective assessment of a country whose future may never come.

80-year-old Anna Filippovna and 63-year-old Alexei Fedorovich, residents of the village of Kuchugury in the Voronezh region (the village about which the director Gerchikov made a real documentary saga), come to Moscow on New Year's Eve, although in recent decades they have not traveled beyond the nearest regional center from their native Kuchugurs.

In the Voronezh village of Kuchugury, in the Nizhnedevitsky district, on the very border with the Kursk region, Vladimir Gerchikov is filming a documentary series about local residents whose worldview combines the myths of the Soviet past and deep peasant wisdom in the most bizarre way. The chronicle of Kuchugur includes 25 episodes, in which it shows the naked truth about the modern village, immersed in impassable mud, thinking aloud about Gorbachev and Yeltsin, interpreting current events as they understand them.