Bad Romance
A man named Modest (54 years old), using a dating site, calls a hooker to the room of a small hotel. Arriving at the meeting, a girl named Karina (24 y.o.) immediately after the first moment of acquaintance with the client realizes that Modest is a slow-witted and shy man. All her attempts to have sex or at least kiss with the customer are unsuccessful. This situation deeply shocks Karina, but still has hope to seduce the client and get him into bed. Finally, unable to deal with such pressure from Karina, Modest reveals the true purpose of their meeting. He is married and loves his wife, and he called Karina only for one purpose - to write a novel, the main character of which is a prostitute. He sees Karina as only a model, and a source of information.
This information shocks Karina even more. She simply can’t accept the idea that she is not wanted. After asking Modest for a glass of wine, Karina strips naked and gets into his bed. Modest still holds his masculine emotions and tries to talk to the girl, finding out that Karina has separated from her husband and is left alone with a small son.
Realizing that there will be no sex, the girl is going to leave. Modest, feeling guilty, offers to give Karina a ride home. During the ride in the pouring rain, Modest tells about himself, about his spouse, about his main tragedy in life - the absence of children. At some point, their whole dialog starts to resemble the meeting of two friends who have not seen each other for a long time and do not want to part again. Before she leaves, Karina asks Modest's permission to kiss him after all.
In the morning Karina is awakened by a phone call. It was Olga, Modest's wife, who was interested in how the meeting went. Karina tells the main customer about Modest's fidelity and vain doubts about her husband. Olga now is on vacation in Egypt, together with her young lover. At the end of the conversation, Olga decides to break up her relationship with her lover and return home as soon as possible. The same interior of the hotel room, where Karina woke up, is revealed to the viewer. A smiling Modest enters the room with a bowl filled with strawberries and lies down on the bed next to Karina. He asks a question that puts an end to the whole story: "What is your son's name?".
Polygamist
A man named Yosif (56 years old) gathers his four ex-wives in a small, cozy hotel room in a historic part of the city. Preparing for the reception and setting the table, he anxiously tells about the upcoming event to the hotel's housekeeper, a man of very small stature, but with great ambition, who brought additional pieces of furniture into the room. First to the dinner party comes the youngest, fourth wife Albina (23 y.o.) with whom Yosif parted six months ago. She was hoping for some kind of meeting-negotiation, but seeing the large number of glasses on the table realizes that they will not be alone.
Their short and a little awkward conversation is interrupted by Ella (42 y.o.), the second wife of Joseph, who enters without knocking. With the words: "Ooh, are you two together again?", the woman goes straight to the table and reaches for the bottle. The intrigue grows when the elegantly dressed first wife Lilya (53 y.o.) enters the room. The women begin to realize that the former spouse has invited them on the occasion of some important event and eagerly await the arrival of the third wife Sonya, assuming that Yosif will announce what has happened only when everyone is together. Soon Sonya (32 y.o.) appears. She doesn’t come alone, but with a boyfriend of athletic stature. That one, having made sure that his chosen one will not be alone with his ex, silently leaves. The women ask Yosif for explanations.
The spouse convinces his former life partners that he invited them just for fun, as he has been living alone for a long time and misses them all. Women are still trying to dig to the truth and express their assumptions about the new 18-year-old spouse, severe depression, or fatal disease. Yosif denies everything. Periodically talks face to face with each of them discussing short philosophical issues and significant importance of each woman in his life. In the end, the culmination of the party is Yosif's answer to the question, "why he invited them here in this small room and not in his luxurious house left by his father" - "I lost the house... loosing in Pocker".
The women are shocked. Yosif confesses that he has nowhere to live and maybe one of them agrees to take him in. An argument starts between the wives, and they try to convince each other that no one needs Yosif now. The former spouse watching and listening to reproaches in his direction with tears in his eyes leaves the room. The women feeling their guilt are silent. Each of them is ready to take him back, but they cannot confess in front of each other. The first wife Lilya proposes to draw lots, as they can't leave Yosif to his fate and someone will have to bear this cross. Everyone agrees. Lilya becomes the winner, but Albina discovers her fraud, and the ex-wives decide to take the lot out of Yosif's hands. The women leave the room to look for their ex and discover him in the arms of a young maid.
Locus
A woman named Klara(38 years old) and her daughter Polly(12 y.o.) come to the capital city to see the local sights. They settle on the first floor of a small cozy hotel in the historic part of the city. In the evening after walking in the city, returning to their room, Clara begins to notice that something unusual is happening in their room. Time flows inside somehow differently, and objects and furniture change their original position, and at the same time the mood changes. Pauline notices the strangeness too, but turns it into fun. A stranger knocks on the room. It is an elderly man who introduces himself as Karl(70 y.o.), a former researcher at the Institute of Anomalous Phenomena. He tells Clara about his many years of calculations and explains that just today, hotel room 101 is the "Locus", an assembly point of unusual energies, so strange phenomena will occur in it. According to the scientist, "Locus" can be used for time travel, but to do so, you must learn to control its power. The action of "Locus" is only 21 minutes and therefore one must hurry not to miss such an opportunity. While talking to Carl, Clara notices that the man's age has suddenly changed. He has started to look much younger. At first this scares her, but then Clara finds herself thinking that Carl is quite attractive. An intriguing idea and a desire to see if the Locus can help her in her personal life make the woman decide to become a participant in the experiment. Under the guidance of a scientist, Clara begins to explore ways to interact with the "Locus", using her inner fears and desires as catalysts to activate its power. Daughter Polly also takes part, but perceives everything in her own way. Each time they make contact with the Locus, all the characters are transported to a different reality where they encounter different versions of their lives and the stories of others who have previously been in this room. These journeys expose them to moral and ethical dilemmas, forcing them to rethink their views and values. As a result of the these events, Clara falls in love with Carl. Eventually, the series of journeys lead to a final when the Locus starts to lose stability and the danger of being forever trapped in one of the parallel realities arises. Using all of Carl's guidance, Clara and her daughter manage to restore balance and return to their reality. And Carl, for some unknown reason, remains in the other world. Before leaving the hotel, Clara notices that she has lost her coral beads, and Polly finds a new bag in luggage. There was a clarinet in there.
Thanatocosmetologist
Thanatocosmetologist Rudolph (65 years old) comes to the capital By special invitation. He stays in a small cozy hotel located in the historical part of the city. In the evening, returning to his room after work, Rudolf is clearly upset about something. Reflecting on his life, he tries to console himself with alcohol and carelessly plops down on the sofa and breaks it. Soon, hotel employee appears in the room and takes on the task of repairing the sofa. Afterward, Rudolf offers the foreman to have a drink with him. He agrees. While drinking Rudolf tells the story that happened to him. When he arrived in town, he was met and taken to the house of the dead person. It was an elderly woman. Rudolph immediately set to work. After four hours of painstaking labor, when the hair and face were ready, the master decided to fix the hair at the back of the head to lay the deceased on a pillow in the coffin. And then Rudolph saw a birthmark on the neck of the old woman. He recognized the deceased. This birthmark could not be confused with any other, it was shoe-shaped birthmark and it resembled the outline of Italy on a world map. Forty-five years ago, Rudolf met Elena, on vacation in Odessa, and they immediately fell in love with each other. Soon, after a night spent together, the lovers decided never separate but fate acted differently. Young, handsome and cheerful Rudolph, on his way to another date with his beloved got into a fight. The result was disastrous. Rudolph found himself in the dock with a sentence of five years for involuntary manslaughter. When Rudolf got out of prison, he decided that the search for Elena was pointless, since he knew nothing about her except her name, and who would want to be with criminal. His monologue is occasionally interrupted by the hotel foreman, giving a philosophical assessment of what he has heard. In the end there is a tragic silence, which is broken by a knock on the door. The intrigue grows when a young girl Nora (21 years old) appears in the room and Rudolf recognizes her as his beloved Elena. The foreman- philosopher hastily withdraws. The girl tells Rudolf that it was she who summoned him, and the deceased is her grandmother. Not long before her death, Elena told her granddaughter the story of her love, and Nora decided to look for Rudolf. Being a law student and using modern information systems, Nora achieves her goal. She finds out what happened and even reads Rudolph's court file, but unfortunately she does not have time to inform her grandmother. Inviting Rudolf as a thanatocosmetologist, the girl had no malicious intent because she did not expect him to recognize Elena. Nora's desire was one, that the grandmother could met with him. She had come to the hotel only because she had noticed Rudolph at the funeral. So he recognized her… So he loved her… Rudolph's reaction to Nora's offer to hug her and his subsequent monologue in front of the mirror are the climax of the action. At the moment of farewell, Nora asks Rudolph for one more important favor, to do DNA test.