On 8th October 1941, Stalin issued a secret order forming a female aviation unit.

Most recently, Sanya paid off the mortgage on the apartment and became a typical positive person. But in his youth, he lived in a completely different way: fights at local discos, showdowns on the streets. All this in the company of Pasha's authoritative older brother, whose fists have not healed since childhood. Pavel has not changed over the years, and at the age of 30 he plans to participate in bare-knuckle fighting. Having met after a long separation, the brothers drank too much and got into an accident: several new cars in the car dealership were broken through their fault. At one point, Sanya got a huge debt, lost his job and wife, and Pasha broke his arm. Now the younger brother is forced to act instead of the elder in fights without rules in order to pay off and return the family.

Rita's daughter is sick with leukemia. In order to obtain the money for a bone marrow transplant, she travels from Ukraine to Russia to become a surrogate mother. The homosexual couple who are the biological parents of the child die in an automobile accident. Rita is left six month pregnant, without any money, and with a dying daughter to care for. In order to save her daughter, Rita is prepared to do anything. She's drawn into the criminal world, from which she escapes with her daughter to Jordan in the Near East, where Bedouins treat cancer by means of nontraditional medicines.

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.