John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.

The curse of the Vasnetsovs overtakes the already grown-up daughters of a family psychotherapist. On the eve of the next wedding anniversary, Dasha runs away from home, leaving the workaholic Veniamin a farewell letter, an engagement ring and four daughters. Now Veniamin, just like his father-in-law once, is forced to become father, mother, and friend for his children. And the resilient Vasnetsov family will help him in this.

Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.

Broom refuses the Alligator's offer to fly the whole family to the Maldives and takes his daughters, Tamara, Masha and neighbor Borya to a complex near Moscow with a five-star hotel, a swimming pool and a ski slope. However, on the spot, the company realizes that everything is not as luxurious as the Broom promised them.

A devious and psychotic student tries to frame a new girl at school for a teen's accidental death at a party.

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.