Zoya Popova

Yakutia, the 1930s. Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live their days in thick taiga. Cows, hunting, fishing make up the simple everyday life of the old people. Once early in the winter an eagle flies into their garden. The old people dare no drive it away because eagles are sacred. All through the winter they feed the bird so that it does no attack their cattle. Gradually they grow accustomed to each other. On a cold Christmas day the eagle makes its way into the house and occupies the honorary place in the corner on the shelf next to the icons. From then on the people and the bird start their life together in one house.

A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to create the perfect person. The KGB general and his aides turn a blind eye to erotic adventures of the director of the Institute, scandalous debauches of prominent scientists and their cruel and insane research. One day, a radical ultra right-wing group arrives in the laboratory under the guise of test subjects. They get a task - to eradicate the decaying elements of the Institute’s community, and if needs be, destroy the fragile world of secret Soviet science.

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of the multi-universe. At scientific conferences, attended by eminent foreign scientists and a rising younger generation of physicists alike, Nekrasov gets carried away debating the beauty of string theory. He attempts to explain to all of his women – Katya, the librarian, Zoya, the scientific secretary, Svetalana, the head of department – about the theory of his own polygamy, and the possibility of having enough feelings to satisfy everyone.

The kind old woman Beyberikeen lives in the magical land of Olonkho. Forests bloom, rivers flow along the ru, the people of Aiyy live quietly in peacetime. But Adyaryna Adyaray - the maiden of darkness - rises from the ashes and seeks strength from her sister, the Stone Woman. Having received powerful energy, Adyaryn flies into the middle world in a black whirlwind and begins to create outrages. The messenger of heaven, the daughter of the old woman Baibarikaen, Altaana Kuo belongs among the owners in the world. With her faithful friends, she goes on an incredible journey, taking the audience into the unique world of fairy tales.

Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.

The plot of the film will tell the story of eight-year-old Vanya, who is experiencing the death of his mother. He believes that she has turned into a Siberian Crane, and now dreams of seeing a flock of these amazing birds.