The story of the famous chess match between world champion Mikhail Botvinnik and young challenger David Bronstein.
The year is 2010. The base of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation. On the destroyer "Bystry" there is a breakthrough in the fuel pipeline with fuel oil. Short circuit, fire. There are 348 people on board. Aldar Tsydenzhapov, a 19-year-old sailor from Transbaikalia, who has dreamed of serving in the navy since childhood, like his grandfather, decides to resist the fire without hesitation.
Lavrenty Semenovich Timoshin, or simply Lavrik, is a young, promising, but very anxious candidate of sciences, who heads the biochemistry laboratory of a serious research institute and has been developing a cure for fear for several years. Mostly from his own. Lavrik is afraid of everything — scientific achievements, his mother's anger, love and reforms at the National Research University. The latter are not long in coming. The rector of the Bogomolov Institute, who has held this position for a long time, wants to give up his post to the younger generation, and Lavrik is the best candidate. But will this position be a boon for Lavrik and will it still allow him to complete his research, especially when such drastic changes go far beyond career growth?
Four bandits in the late nineties come to knock money out of the debtor, but accidentally fall into the cryocamera and end up in 2022. Phil, Chuck, Whizz and Massa do not immediately realize that during this time Moscow has radically changed, their lifestyle has become very outdated, and people around have a lot of unfamiliar devices and strange habits. The worst thing is that their loved ones have grown older, and now someone will have to rebuild their relationship with their son, who has become his age, and someone will have to win the heart of an already much older girlfriend. Now the four friends must find themselves in a new incomprehensible world and take revenge on their former boss, who sent them to the cryocamera.
When the police finally catch an elusive serial killer, no one can prove his guilt, resulting in the lead detective making it personal.
Colonel Alexander Volkov teaches at the Academy of the FSB, he is seventy, he is retired. Captain Igor Kamorin is an active operative, he is twenty-seven. Kamorin is a fan of electronic gadgets, while Volkov does not know how to use WhatsApp. Kamorin believes in progress and believes that Volkov's "tube brains" have become obsolete in the last century, while Volkov is sure that Kamorin's "clip thinking" is not even suitable for solving crossword puzzles. However, in tandem, these two will do the impossible: combine the old school and modern technology.
34-year-old physicist-astronomer Ignat Halley, fascinated by the stars and work at the mountain observatory, flies to the capital to file for a divorce. In Moscow, under unusual circumstances, Ignat meets a mysterious girl Taisia Artemyev and meets her whole family: mother Yulia, sister Dusya and intelligent, eccentric grandmother Yanga Lvovna. This meeting turns everything upside down in the life of an astronomer. And on New Year's Eve, Ignat will have to make an important decision that will change not only his life, but also his new acquaintances.
