S1.E1 ∙ Episode #1.1

The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the priest hires a mime from a troupe of traveling players to impersonate the statue during the church's hours of operation.

The half-educated law student Pyotr Chukhontsev, who is trying his hand at private investigation, is approached by engineer Kuklin, an inventor who fears for his life. Soon, Kuklin dies exactly as he foresaw.

USSR society in the late Brezhnev years had its own yuppies: the 30 something Young Communist League officers rising in the Party bureaucracy.One is about to lose his rank after a theft from his office.

Old war veterans meet a changed world.

After having returned from Berlin to St. Petersburg the Russian soldier Oleg realizes that after the breakdown of communism everything he once knew has changed. Only his friend Vladimir welcomes him with the traditional bottle of Vodka and when they get drunk they decide to become capitalists...

Marc is a 39-year-old Catholic priest, a model for his entire parish. He is one of the few enthusiastic advocates of priestly celibacy. But trouble comes knocking at his door one day.