Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.

Every Saturday fireman Anton Kalashnikov welcomes his 14-year-old daughter Kira from the dance. TV, dumplings for dinner - a standard set of entertainment from a Saturday dad for a teenage girl. But on this day, everything went wrong. Kira rings the intercom, Kalashnikov opens the front door, but the girl does not go up to the apartment. Anton has to ask for help from his neighbors in a concrete box, breaking through human indifference and past grievances.

A civil war rages across a vast, seemingly unpopulated landscape. As men fight and die, a mute woman searches for her son who has been kidnapped by child organ traffickers. She is accompanied by ‘the Steppenwolf’, a reformed ex-convict now hardened into a ruthless investigator. They resemble a bloody odd couple, but are determined to see their mission through, removing every obstacle – most of them human – in their path.

影片剧情根据真人真事改编，讲述了哈萨克科学家、作家和公众人物阿迪·沙里波夫的战斗历程——从第一次参战到身负重伤。在二战期间，他在白俄罗斯森林中当了28个月的游击队员，战友们都称呼他为哈萨克的萨沙。该片由哈萨克斯坦文化和体育部下令、在该国国家电影制作中心的协助下拍摄完成。

这个故事是哈萨克斯坦版本的《雌雄大盗》。年轻的科梅克在服兵役后回到家乡，发现一切都变了，犯罪团伙用残忍的手段支配着整个城市。他深爱的女孩伊娃陷入生活的泥沼，科梅克自己也沉溺在犯罪中。但是他还有一个梦想，他想和伊娃逃走，两个人开一家电影院。他决定无论如何也要干成这件事情……

1941年秋，德军逼近莫斯科，苏联军队奋勇抵抗。严冬来临，前线形势依然十分严峻。希特勒此时决定给苏军致命一击：刺杀斯大林。而苏联国家安全部也对此有所察觉，为了斯大林的安全，大尉别烈日诺立刻带领自己的行动组展开调查。毫无疑问，敌人就潜伏在周围。而此时，一个神秘女人波琳娜突然闯入了别烈日诺的生活。他们之间会发生什么纠葛？行动组会遇到怎样的挑战？谁才是真正的间谍？