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Victor and Nadezhda are husband and wife. She is an ordinary budget employee, he is a wheelchair-bound invalid. They are orphans and vegetate in this life, in which they have long become ordinary extras, hostages of their own illusions, driven into a dead end...

The son and his mother resign themselves to their fate, living the last day on earth before the end of the everything. The film is based on the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury.

Our country has celebrated the 20th anniversary of independence. Over the years, a whole generation of people who proudly call themselves Kazakhstanis has grown up. But 20 years ago, when everything was just beginning, this generation was born and raised by women who went through many difficulties of that difficult time. They raised their children, relying only on themselves and their own strength, and carried the future of the whole country on their fragile shoulders.

About the life of a young man from a dysfunctional family.

A young talented Ongar is an advertising director who enjoys wealth and honor. His life, however, is empty inside. Not yet married, he falls in love with a married actress Zina. She is not happy with her marriage taking anti-depression pills, but hesitate to get divorced. Her child accidently got aborted due to the side effects of the pills that Ongar was in charge of promotion. Ongar feels guilty and decides to quit his career in spite that everyone is opposed to his resign. He goes to hometown in the countryside seeking for comforts from religion. However, the organized religion system doesn’t help much. Then Zina comes to visit him. Fanatical youngsters in the village doesn’t like them to be together especially when it’s the holy Ramadan period.

A team of contractors is building a gas pipeline in the steppe. One of the workers is accidentally sealed into a pipe. This is the last junction — you can't walk in either direction. People are faced with a choice: to save a person or to execute a plan on time.

Ayaulym is forced to live in a boarding school, where cruel rules prevail, and children are at enmity with each other. He wants to return home, and this dream comes true when her father dies. However, huge debts fall on the shoulders of the widow and her daughter.

The story is about how power, money and hatred destroy people's lives.