The punk universe of "The King and the Jester" is threatened with destruction. The fairy-tale world is collapsing under the footsteps of the dead, resurrected by the mad Necromancer. No one can defeat the villain except his creators - friends separated by death... Pot and Prince.
Rita is a poetically gifted girl who is just beginning to search for her place in this world. To realize her dreams and escape from her father, who began dictating his rules to her after her mother's death, Rita gets a job as a nurse for the daughter of a former teacher. Faith in herself will help her gain independence from the people and circumstances around her and go towards her dream.
Grisha, an official from the committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites, has an ideal plan — to carefully kidnap the boss on New Year's Eve in order to make a deal with another shopping center in the city center himself. Grisha has provided for everything, and it's hard to imagine what could go wrong.
Maxim Kuznetsov, a journalism student and an adherent of investigative journalism, is interested in questions whose answers are not so easy to obtain. Having assembled a team of student friends, programmer Stesha and operator Dani, Maxim intends to uncover the mystery and provide answers in his course work. During the investigation, students conduct opinion polls and experiments, tear away the veils from the past, encounter shocking conclusions and are persecuted - after all, it is completely unprofitable for someone to let the truth come out.
The unifying beginning of all the stories are their characters – they are all teenagers just entering adulthood. The theme of socio-psychological adaptation in the big world, the search for oneself and the difficulties of communication runs through all the films. These young people are ready to desperately run on thin ice, look for their favorite toy in a huge city dump, run away from their parents in their van, build a model of a dream house day after day, sit for hours in the pouring rain. In short, they are all learning to live.
During the next duty, patrolman Vera Sedova single-handedly prevents a tragedy at the college, but a student dies in the process. She claims that the guy had a sawed-off gun, however, no weapons were found. The policewoman is cursed by her parents and the public. The only one who becomes humanly sorry for Vera is the appointed lawyer Ilya Nesterov. Ilya is more and more immersed in the case and is convinced that his client may be right.
A 13-year-old albino girl nicknamed Muk, the only witness to the mysterious disappearance of a peer, falls in love with the main suspect, and goes from an outcast to a person on whom other people's fates depend.
The sinister ghost of the Queen of Spades is out for blood, her victims the students of an old boarding school shrouded in gloomy rumors. Exploring the school’s abandoned wing, the teenagers discover a mirror covered in mysterious drawings. Facing it, they playfully recite an incantation which renders their innermost desires a reality - at the expense of nothing less than their souls.