In Metro City, many super heroines protect the citizens. They fight crime, save the day and look great while doing it, but what happens when the super heroines need protecting' Lady Victory with others set out to protect the city, but when a mysterious villain starts hunting them down they will need more then their good looks to save the day.
Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.
A lonely 70-year-old man, an eccentric artist from Odessa, Sir Pinkhus, dreams to have grandchildren. But he even does not have children. Obviously first he needs to have a son to realize a dream about having a grandson. The old man has friends at the orphanage. They choose a guy Arkasha for the role of son. Arkasha is a 50-year old bonehead who recently hit the bricks and worked at the orphanage as a stoker.
A successful architect, Yi Zhong, learned the bad news that he was suffering from bone cancer while receiving the good news of his wife's pregnancy. Facing a painful turning point in life, physical and psychological suffering, Yi Zhong made a wish to let his child see the most handsome figure of a positive cancer-fighting father. Yi Zhong confronts the disease with humor and head-on while sharing his life through video recordings. However, as the disease deteriorates rapidly, how will he face the people around him and the child he may never meet?