The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at all easy to find a worthy use for such money, and in the final it turns out a simple truth — “happiness is not in money ...”

A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia, and her mind drifts to the past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.

Student Ivan falls in love with Nadia, the wife of a rich businessman. The passion that has engulfed them prompts Nadia to leave her husband, and Ivan to give up his prestigious lawyer job in Moscow.

Nadezhda Reshetova lives in a small provincial town - a young, charming woman, and also the head of the construction department at the local mayor's office. Everyone loves her, and some (like the drunkard neighbor, for example) are even afraid of her. But Nadya has not yet met her fate. She lives with her beloved grandmother and loves to fish: every weekend she goes overnight to the river in her Zhiguli. And then on one of these weekends, Nadya meets the “prince on a white horse.” This is Victor, a businessman from Moscow, a horse riding enthusiast. The acquaintance began romantically and continued like in a fairy tale. Soon the wedding was scheduled.

A beautiful blonde is killed in the women's restroom of a bar-restaurant; after a long and dangerous chase, the murderer-motorcyclist manages to escape from the police...

A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Victoria. The novel follows them through adolescence, as Johannes struggles with the social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, and Victoria is forced into marrying Otto, a lieutenant, to save the troubled family economy.

A young cashier of one of the enterprises with a large sum of money disappears. A group of employees of the Criminal Investigation Department is involved in the work.

Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.

In Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as the local authorities come under pressure to fall in line with the officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist Government. The village elder is one of our hero's best friends and together they seem to find a way to outwit these evil intentions but unfortunately they fail to understand what forces they are dealing with in a country where anti-Semitism is state policy.