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Sergei’s life differs in no way from the life of other people. Work, family and days off spent before the TV set. That’s his comfort zone: in order to protect it, he is ready for any kind of compromise... or nearly any. Once, leaving his home for some family business, he returns as a completely different person.
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On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.