The eldest daughter of the Skuratov family tends the family apiary with care and love, but her heart is frozen by memories and pain after the sudden loss of her father.

An elderly man who has lived with certain convictions for years encounters a situation that makes him question them... As doubt creeps into his soul, he embarks on a deep journey within himself, confronting the fragility of truth and the precariousness of his own beliefs.

This is a portrait essay about a farm run by Darya Fedotova, whose husband volunteered to go to the front. The fragile woman is raising two children, managing a substantial farm, and waiting for her husband to return safe and sound.

Areas of soil that were once unsuitable for farming are now teeming with beneficial earthworms, cows enjoy motherhood, and neighbors are amazed by the delicious milk. Is it possible to build a business on permaculture, and how can it help revive the Arctic? History knows many examples of eccentric individuals changing the world. Rinaldo Mallyamov is not just a farmer. He is a philosopher, a researcher, an experimenter. Some people find his ideas unacceptable, while others, on the contrary, will find their calling in them.

Ordinary people from the provinces are changing the world for the better through simple actions. Each hero surprises in their own way and inevitably inspires.

In the serene forests of Orsa, we follow the life of a 70‑year‑old Swede who tends to his farm in the company of a loyal dog. Shot in the observational format, this documentary will take us on a journey through memories, solitude, and the unhurried rhythm of everyday life.

After getting married, the newly formed Vilyansky family set off on a honeymoon trip to New Zealand. The couple dreamed of moving, of the ocean and life under sail, but life made its own adjustments. By a twist of fate, the characters find themselves on a small island in the middle of the Rybinsk Reservoir, where, in a small village house, the family began to build the life of their dreams, away from the hustle and bustle and the constraints of society.

In the 1960s, his village was scheduled for liquidation. Everyone left, except Kinyagul Salimgareev. Recently he turned ninety, seventy of which he has spent living alone. Smoke always rises above his roof. He believes that as long as the stove is burning, the village is alive. His daily life consists of hunting, farming, and beekeeping. His ancestors are buried here, and perhaps that is why he refuses to leave his homeland. He hopes that one day his village will be reborn.
With age, Kinyagul has grown afraid of death and wants to be buried in the land where he belongs.

Zamira Omorova is a programmer, accountant, and lawyer by education, and by profession she is a shepherd who herds yaks. Is her job a heavy burden for her? Only she herself knows her most сокровенные secrets.

Igor and his son Senya travel to North Ossetia for the funeral of Igor's father, with whom he hadn't spoken in years. Senya doesn't know his grandfather has died, so Igor tells him an old legend about a turtle and an ancient tree. Arriving in his home village, Igor fulfills his father's final wish and digs a grave beneath the tree. After the funeral, Senya waters the tree. As father and son prepare to head back, the old legend comes true, and they realize that home is here now, on their native land.

Three sisters — Sámi shaman noaidi — live in seclusion in the forest, upholding their traditional way of life. One night, fishermen bring to their home a young man who was caught in a storm and lost his sight. The middle sister takes it upon herself to nurse him back to health, and a romantic bond forms between them. As she grows curious about everything happening in the outside world, her connection with the Blind Man draws her away from her sisters and their traditions.

Valentin Dmitrievich Shevelev, a hereditary master of the Kargopol clay toy craft, shares his memories of the Russian northern village, its traditions and way of life, and his many years of experience working with clay toys. He recounts the secrets and folk legends connected to the toy and to this ancient craft.

Without the storytelling sandstone and humble headstones, it would seem the people of Western Serbia had never existed at all. Portraits and biographies came to them only after death. Their stonemasons were peasants too — at once naive artists, poets, philosophers, or simply craftsmen, but never indifferent. Between the Ibar and Drina rivers, between the Rudnik and Zlatar mountains, between Serbian uprisings and world wars, these stonecutters humanized their stones so they could stand guard over the homeland — bitterly awaiting a new spring, growing wrinkled with lichen. Only to die again.