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The life of 60-year-old Nikolai Frolov was going on as usual. A working pensioner, he lived in love and harmony with his wife Tamara. He had always been a man of his word and deed, decent and honest. But then came the "black day" that deprived him of everything he cherished and completely changed his life. His present life consists of sleeping in the basements of residential buildings, poverty, hunger, and other "delights" of life without a permanent place of residence. Fate has treated him unfairly, but he patiently resists the circumstances...
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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.