The events of the film begin on December 31, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new president. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation "successor", as a result of which Russia ended up with the president who still rules the country. The protagonists of the film are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian nation, as always being a silent witness of its own destiny.

Internet-premiere of the film took place on the 12th December 2018 at the Artdoc.Media online movie theatre.

Ten young directors spent two months with the camera. The result is chronicles of the protest winter 2011-2012. The film is about those who make a political agenda, and about those who are not satisfied with such an agenda. People, faces, conversations, rallies, victories and defeats on the eve of the presidential election. Live camera, live characters.

The author defines the genre of the picture as a film novel. A very personal story of pride, betrayal, disappointment, and the beginning of a new life. Russia. 2007. Presidential elections are to be held exactly one year later. The political opposition is determined to take decisive action and dreams of taking power into its own hands. But politics in the film is just a background, an environment in which the main characters exist. The film is not about politics, but about people in politics and politics in people. For the heroes of the film (and they are, in fact, the archetypal characters of Russian history, carriers of the "virus" of the revolution), this year is a test and a starting point for a new life.

Since May 2012, for almost two years, directors Alexei Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev, and with them the best young documentary filmmakers have been following the most current events in Russia and posting short videos on the Internet almost every day. "Term" became an alternative to openly propaganda television reports and an experiment in the format of "documentary news", when the authors tried to see its living, human side in every significant event.

Outside in 2012. The agreed-upon rally on May 6 on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow is violently dispersed by riot police. This is a rally of those who disagree with the results of the presidential election, which Putin won. The protagonist of the film, an activist of the movement "Solidarity" Vsevolod Chernozub decides to stand on Bolotnaya to the end. Neither he nor the other participants in the rally have any idea how events will develop further. Seva is young and confident in the victory of a peaceful protest. He was one of the organizers of the first march on December 5, 2011 after the elections to the State Duma, from that day a wave of protests began in Moscow and Russia. Seva and his comrades are trying to figure out how to act now that so many people are chanting, "Fair elections!" They want to set up a tent city on Pushkinskaya Square the day after the presidential election and push society towards a peaceful regime change. This film is a nostalgia for those times when you could go out into the street and chant "Russia without Putin." This is an attempt to find in the recent past the answer to the main question of today.

2011-2012 years. Swamp area. Protest mood. 22-year-old Dasha goes to the elections for municipal deputies in the Brateevo district of Moscow. She is not a member of any party, and her election fund is 15 thousand rubles, which her mother gave. Thus begins Dasha's political career. Two years have passed. Career is taking shape. What can not be said about personal life. It seems that family and political success for a girl are incompatible things.

Oleg and Andrey are truck drivers who have spent most of their lives driving large trucks. After many years of working around the clock, they managed to build a business and solve material problems. They could do what they love and adequately provide for their families. When in November 2015 tolls were introduced in Russia on all federal highways for heavy trucks, the life of drivers changed dramatically. The charging system was called “Platon” (“fee per ton”). Late at night, Andrei and Oleg, along with other truckers, left St. Petersburg for Moscow to cancel this system.

I was 22. I worked in the news. The task to shoot Boris Nemtsov was perceived as a challenge: the old narcissistic bourgeois, well, what is interesting about him? He was 53. He was already a graduate student in physics, and vice-premier, and "Boris Yeltsin's heir". And he turned out to be cool, kind and sincere. And we became friends. And then they killed him. This film is about how a big historical context is narrowed down to a small personal story. How acquaintance develops into friendship. Filming news reports for several years in a row, the camera snatched out a little more than it was supposed to, examined it more closely than usual, turning it into a movie. This is a portrait film. Accidental, passing, tragicomic. A look at a living person who plays the role of a big politician all his life. However, he enjoyed this role. Joke after joke, and now you are Nemtsov's bosom friend. I thought Nemtsov was eternal, I thought I could always shoot him. But life decided otherwise. Leaving me with only 70 minutes of a film about a man who is no more. The work was awarded at the International Film Festival of Documentary, Short Feature and Animated Films "Message to Man" - 2016: "Centaur" Prize for the best full-length non-fiction film of the national competition.

Perm cardiac surgeon Sergey Sukhanov, who has performed more than 15,000 open heart surgeries in his career, has always considered human life and health to be the most important values ​​on earth. He managed to prove that the Perm Territory needed its own cardio industry, and in the mid-2000s a modern Cardio Center was to appear there. The state allocated significant funds for its construction, but the commissioning of the Center was constantly delayed. Tired of fighting with regional officials, Professor Sukhanov continued to work in a two-hundred-year-old mansion that housed an old hospital. At the end of 2011, Sukhanov unexpectedly received an offer from the Kremlin to head Vladimir Putin's campaign headquarters.

Video diaries about the confusion and hopes of the early nineties. People were left without a livelihood in large numbers. In the center of Moscow, giant flea markets were officially allowed, where sellers stood and sold whatever they had. Goldovskaya met with many of her friends and acquaintances and asked them how they live, what they feel. Since Marina's interlocutors are her good friends, the stories turned out to be trusting and sincere.