S1.E4 ∙ Episode #1.4

1944. Russia, Michailovskoye village, memorial house of Pushkin. Maria Shiller, a German professor of literature, comes here from Germany to educate Wehrmacht soldiers and local peasants. Her actions lead to the disapproval of German military commanders. A local resident named Sergey starts a forbidden romance with the German lady. Soon afterwards Berlin orders to bring all historic values out of the country. Sergey decides to save the country's heritage at all costs. Pushkin's patrimony should stay in Russia. Even if it costs a life.

The McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the weekly steamer to come and work as a servant to the Macraes. Mary is warned that she must have no dealings with the McFarish family but living a lonely life she encourages the friendship of Will McFarish, with tragic consequences.

The story of a freckle-faced washerwoman in whom a whole group of friends take an interest, with a sensual undertone of summer fun.

This true story took place in 1910 in Eastern Siberia, in the expanses of Yakutia. 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 leaves for a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.

Slava leaves behind his job in deliveries and transportation, as well his wife who doesn't understand him, to pursue his dream of becoming a dowsing psychic. As failures accumulate, he becomes discouraged about his gift-until he inadvertently manages to perform a miracle: create a moth out of nothing. The mere insect turns out to be enough for a dangerous secret society to now want to meet Slava in person.

Widowed mother Charleigh, once wealthy, moves to rural Midwest to live with relatives, facing unfamiliar farm life. Neighbor Halen's brother Krister falls for her beauty while rich Seth pursues her, offering a comfortable life.