An attempt to comprehend the changes that have taken place in Russia with people over 100 years, realized in the unusual genre of comparing the current reality and photographs taken at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The photographs, taken by Russian realist photographer Maxim Dmitriev, were printed as large posters and traveled with the film crew to the places where they were taken. People of different classes, social groups and professions consider "themselves" a century later and talk about life and about those they see in the photographs.

A series about love and dislike in the small Russian provincial town of Torzhok, about smoldering or raging passions there.

The protagonist of the film goes to Holland for her loved one. Hoping to find happiness, she enters a different world of interpersonal relationships. A few years later, a man for whom a woman in love left her native country, learned a foreign language, changed her lifestyle, dies. His children on the same day kick her and her son out into the street. Despite the hard trials, fatigue, the heroine does not leave a sense of humor, and worldly wisdom and warmth of relations with people around her create the impression of a calm, harmonious life. Willpower and faith, dictated by a deep philosophy of life, help her fight for the right to remain herself in a foreign country.

An essay about the fate of a village woman, the weigher Shura Alekseeva, whose dreams help her survive in this difficult world. The eternal theme of the Russian woman, the Russian province and the everlasting expectation of love.