Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.
An unprecedented epidemic of rabies is breaking out in the taiga. Infected wolves become more and more ferocious, and even the slightest bite brings certain death. At the same time, a desperate father decides to forcibly isolate his son in one of the hunting lodges in order to save him from addiction. Soon, he and several local residents will have to fight not only with a rabid pack, but also with the most dangerous predator of the forest.
About the female generation of one family: their love, faith and a promise of a lifetime.
Capital traffic jams and endless replacement of tiles on the sidewalks, filming of national films and absurd situations with artists, stories from the lives of neighbors and their dogs.
1978. Cherkasov's group begins a new investigation: a young gamer Kira Miller and her lover Colonel Potapenko were killed at a dacha near Moscow. It turns out that shortly before her death, Kira lost 400 thousand rubles in a katrana - an underground casino. To find out all the circumstances of the case, Major Cherkasov decides to send Sonya Timofeeva to the katran. At the casino, Sonya meets Boris, nicknamed the Musician, who works there as a pianist. They have a whirlwind romance. But one day, in front of Sonya, Boris commits a crime. Realizing that she is in danger, he looks for a way to save her.
