1899年的圣诞节节期，浓郁的假日气氛笼罩着首都大城彼得堡，纷纷扬扬的大雪和结冰的河道似乎也被世纪末的狂欢点燃。命运的安排下，掌灯人之子马特维（Федор Федотов饰）和高官女儿阿丽萨（Софья Присс饰）在节日的街头相逢。马特维唯一的财富就是他的“银色溜冰鞋”，阿丽萨则梦想研习科学，摆脱父亲和未婚夫阿尔卡季（Кирилл Зайцев饰）的控制。两个世界的交错究竟会带来怎样的冰上奇缘？

故事发生在省城的一个小镇上，前苏联时期这里曾建有一座城市型精炼厂。上世纪 90 年代，这里盗窃、抢劫和犯罪活动猖獗。每个人都想从企业的黄金储备中至少拿走一小部分。如今，精炼厂受到一小撮人的庇护。无法无天的现象似乎不复存在，工人们按时拿到工资，被选中者的账户得到补充，农村的生活照常进行--每个人都很幸福。

　　只有主角--一个绰号 "吉普赛 "的年轻偷车贼不认为工厂的新工作制度是诚实的。他伸张 "正义"，只从那些 "罪有应得 "的人那里偷车，在他看来，城市里这样的人不在少数。然而，他生命中最重要且无法弥补的不公是父亲的死。吉普赛人想向肇事者复仇，但他不知道他们是谁，父亲去世已经 20 年了。有一天，工厂的前厂长、整个城市的幕后主人列昂尼德-马克西莫维奇在城中露面，二人的相遇成了彼此命运的转折点...

The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the one hand - an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mother and a father who is a docent, on the other - the dangerous world of an Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And there's also the girl Zhenya, whose encounter triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the life of Alex. Running away from hooligans, Alex steals a car of local criminal authority, and in an instant everything changes. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear - life will never be the same again. Not for Alex himself, nor for the whole of Russia.

19th century. A self-taught inventor nicknamed Levsha is recruited to help investigate a mechanical flea found in the chambers of Aleksandr III.