“Stroma's funeral” or “grandmother” is the name of the three-day rite, which is held every year in the village of Shutilovo, Nizhny Novgorod region. In its spirit, it is the folk carnival, about which Mikhail Bakhtin and Francois Rabelais wrote: a change of appearance, general merriment, plenty of food, drink, indecent words and deeds. During this game of death and burial, there is no place for genuine grief. But when things are going awry in the non-holiday life of a Russian village, it is very difficult not to cry.

One day, Tina’s ex-husband Lenchik and his young wife Alina unceremoniously invade Tina’s apartment. A schoolteacher, intelligent and sophisticated, Tina can do nothing to oppose the impudent impudence of her ex-husband. The situation gets even worse when Alina abandons her newborn son and hides in an unknown direction. Lenchik decides to return to his relationship with Tina. And he acts with his usual unceremoniousness.

Ola sets off to Ireland to bring her father's body back to Poland after he dies in a building site accident. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he had saved money for the car he had promised her. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in her own streetwise way, Ola will get to know her father.