Senior Lieutenant of the Navy Aleksey Alekhin, once descending to the seabed in a bathyscaphe, finds himself in a strange underwater cave that serves as a portal to a fabulous world. In this new unfamiliar place, he meets a little dragon left without a mother. Aleksey unwittingly becomes the dragon's guardian and friend and gives the baby the name Gorynych.

A few hours before the holiday, everyone with bated breath hopes for a miracle. The whole village of Glukharevo is preparing to welcome a foreign movie star in a big way. In Tyumen, a housewife and a future blogger need to win a bet with her husband. In Yekaterinburg, a roleplayer in love is torn between family happiness and epic adventures. In St. Petersburg, the girl, along with the long-awaited marriage proposal, finds out that her fiancé was a fraudster. As always, the fates of the heroes will unexpectedly intertwine and everyone will get their own piece of New Year's magic...

The main character recovers consciousness after a terrifying accident and discovers that it is 2035. The last thing he can recall is his work for a corporation that created robotized systems.

On a snow-covered highway near the northern town of Kostomuksha, police find the frozen corpse of a woman in a frozen car. The victim is the wife of investigator Evgeniy Rudin. The rage that has taken possession of the hero leads him along the path of senseless cruelty, the victims of which can be both innocent people and those close to Rudin. Evgeniy finds unexpected support in the face of a strange boy Mitya. Meanwhile, the killings continue.

USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone: doctors, patients, relatives need to preserve human dignity in the face of a terrible disease for which there is no cure yet.