A young journalist Andrey Evgeniyev has always dreamed of becoming a war reporter. He served in the navy, took part in "The Crimean Spring", participated in a navy military parade after Crimea became a part of Russia. After conscription service he worked on a regional television channel, created several stories about security officers, discussed in detail the crime detection and drug confiscation. Unexpectedly, he found himself on the other side of the prison grid. Evgeniyev was detained in the middle of the street by police officers, and after a search was conducted, the prosecutor signed a drug confiscation order. The court took the prosecutor’s side and Andrey was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. But the young journalist claims that he has fallen victim of arbitrariness and that someone framed him on a count of drug possession for the sake of statistics – because it is the easiest way to prosecute and solve criminal cases. Andrey's relatives and colleagues don't give up. Former sailor refuses to ask for parole, because in that case he would have to admit guilt. The head of department for criminal investigation, who interrogated the journalist, was promoted for his good work. Meanwhile prisoner Evgeniyev met some friends in misfortune, who also claimed that they have fallen victims to circumstances and the same police officers. Another young man – Nikita Mikheenko serves his sentence for possession of drugs after meeting with the same investigator - Gorneev. Nikita's relatives are trying to prove their son’s innocence, but no matter what they do, they are met by “presumption of guilt”. The court always trusts law enforcement officers, even when they have no proof except a protocol of search. Will the young men manage to defend their dignity or will they forever remain the convicted criminals with indelible stains on their biographies?

At the cemetery near Moscow for thirty years, shovel to shovel, gravedigger friends Sasha and Yura have been working. The first is a former athlete who undermined his health at the beginning of his career. The second is a graduate physicist in the past, a failed scientist who left science in the 90s for the sake of a quick and solid income. They feel free, provide for their families, and in this they see the meaning of their existence. Yura helps her divorced daughter raise her child alone. Sasha's daughter is already an adult, and the former athlete finds an outlet in coaching, teaching teenagers martial arts. The bogatyr Yura, who even in winter digs naked to the waist, hopes that he will have enough health for another ten years, just in time to put his granddaughter on his feet. Although the former physicist is already 63 years old. Sasha is younger than his partner, but it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to combine the work of a gravedigger and a coach. Friends have a new partner, 40-year-old bankrupt businessman Alexei. He hopes to make ends meet and leave the cemetery quickly, but, as you know, "nothing is more permanent than temporary." Under the bottomless sky over eternal peace. Are the earthly dreams and hopes of our heroes destined to come true? After all, as Brodsky wrote, "each grave is the end of the earth."

Due to the peculiarities of their place of residence, the characters of this film observe life in its various manifestations. Everyone has their own landscape outside the window. Some live opposite the maternity hospital and pay attention daily to the color of the balloons in the sky, blue or pink (a boy or a girl was born). Others wake up every weekend to the cries of "bitter!" and pops of opening champagne, their windows overlook the registry office. And someone constantly has to watch the gloomy cemetery view.