Being slim and married to a great love, preferably before 30 - that's what Sasha Zaitseva dreamed about when she was 13. Sixteen years later, in her wedding dress, she stands on the bridge, crying and can’t decide what to do next.
In the story, Russian gymnastics champion Nastya quits her favorite sport due to a conflict with her coach. Unable to imagine life without victories, the girl goes to women's rugby. Max, who left boxing and mixed martial arts at one time, trains in the men's team of the same club. Everyone in their team is exploring the honest, uncompromising and brutal world of rugby.
Captain Viktor Gromov takes 20 cadets on board a ship for training. However, a global catastrophe drowns all the continents and the ship is the only place where the sailors can survive.
Contemporary Moscow. Journalist Sonya Bagretsova reviews restaurants for a popular Internet magazine. A misanthrope who wants and needs no one, she has one weakness - alcohol - that lands her in a ridiculous predicament.
Shadows lurk from the World of Darkness to the human world. This force is the gateway between the two worlds and only the force of true love will be enough to restore balance.
17-year-old Vera had everything: gold in competitions, a loved one, an adored dad, a swimming coach mom. But after the betrayal of her mother, at one point her whole successful life "sailed away" from Vera: the girl suddenly leaves the big sport and remains alone with a child in her arms. 15 years later, she is a successful coach, among whose wards is her son Kirill. Only the past does not let go of Faith and presents a tempting offer. And now the former champion will have to face again not only the treachery of her own mother, who is ready to do anything for big victories, but also the ex-boyfriend who led the national swimming team.
A journalist of "American Post" Alex Wilson wrote a scorcher of a critique on unreachable “American dream” and "won" a termless business trip to Russia. At first he is terrified by thinking of the homeland of balalaika, vodka, and bears, but later he is inspired with love and respect for the foreign country.
Graduates of the psychology faculty Vika, Tanya and Alina know firsthand what "cognitive helplessness", "impostor syndrome" and "demon of jealousy" are. However, after meeting ten years later, the girls realize that Freud and other luminaries of psychology do not save their personal lives. Alina starts fleeting affairs, Vika has become a tyrant in her own family, and Tanya has acquired a baggage of complexes. The friends got close again to help each other with professional advice when the diagnosis should be made not to the patient, but to herself.
In search of former glory and money for a new collection, fashion designer Lansky finds a sponsor in the person of the wife of the criminal authority Gali. A self-confident girl comes to Moscow with a "faithful dog" Misha to cover up her husband's machinations with the Lansky brand. A fashion designer dreaming of shows in Paris is forced to work with an obscenely rich Sakhalin lady, completely devoid of taste.
Klim Shipenko is making a film about Lomonosov starring Pavel Derevyanko. But the actor is overtaken by a creative crisis, and for inspiration he goes to the homeland of the scientist whom he sees in his fantasies. Pavel settles in the house of the Belovs, whose head Egor earns by physical labor. The appearance of Derevyanko changes the usual way of life of the locals: Egor is afraid of losing his wife Masha, their daughter Polina falls in love with a celebrity, and deputy Kholmogor builds an election campaign with the help of a star.
One day Dima met Julia, and they fell in love with each other. Yulia is a girl from a simple family, and Dima is the son of the oligarch Boris Chuikin. Only no one knows about this, because Dima does not bear his father's surname, is not proud of him and earns his own living. It's getting to the wedding, when suddenly his whole crazy family bursts into the life of the future newlyweds, or rather into Dima's cozy apartment: his father, who is wanted for organizing a construction pyramid, an eccentric mother and an arrogant sister. But even worse, Yulia's parents are shareholders deceived by Boris Chuikin. Now Dima needs not only to reconcile the two families, but also to feed the runaway relatives who are used to not denying themselves anything.
