Askhat had been living a bachelor’s life for a long time and ended up divorcing just three months after getting married. One day, when his ex-wife Gulzhan comes by to collect the rest of her belongings, he finds out that she’s already planning to marry someone else. They get into an argument, and Gulzhan harshly tells Askhat everything she really thinks of him, ending with the claim that no woman would ever want to marry him. Offended and caught off guard, Askhat lies and says that he also has a girlfriend — someone far better than his ex — and boldly declares that he’ll come to Gulzhan’s wedding with her.
Major Erbol commands the company. He is devoted to his work to the core, the best soldier. He is single, unmarried and lives only by work, military service is his vocation. Unexpectedly, Yerbol is fired and an ultimatum is put forward to Yerbol: he will be able to return to service only after he has worked at school as a teacher of NVP and a class teacher of the problematic 11 B.
Kairat gets a long sentence for embezzling a large amount of public money. He has been in prison for two years. During the time spent behind bars, he has acquired new connections and gained a decent authority, but Kairat's "comfort zone" collapses when an antagonist comes to him at one of the meetings in the person of a civil servant who offers him to shorten the term in return for a service.
Johan — a poor actor and father of a family — carries his modest earnings not home, but on bets. He had two dreams — to become a movie star and hit a big jackpot. Neither one nor the other has come true yet. One day, Johan puts too much on the line and loses with disastrous consequences. Up to his ears in debt, he makes a deal with bandits looking for a cache of stolen gold.