The unifying principle of all the stories is their heroes - they are all teenagers just entering adulthood. The theme of socio-psychological adaptation in the big world, the search for oneself and the difficulties of communication runs through all the films. These young people are ready to desperately run on thin ice, look for their favorite toy in a huge city dump, run away from their parents in their van, day after day build a model of their dream house, sit for hours in the pouring rain. In a word, they all learn to live.