The Turbin family tries to hold on to their home and dignity in a Kiev that keeps changing hands through the winter of the civil war.
A small office clerk gets tangled in an absurd bureaucratic machine that sets out to grind him down.
A zoology professor's discovery falls into the wrong hands, and a scientific marvel turns into a threat.
A famous professor performs a bold medical experiment on a stray dog and gets something very different from what he expected.
A young doctor begins his practice in a remote country hospital, alone with disease, fear and his very first decisions.
A doctor's diary that records, step by step, how a familiar medicine turns into an addiction.
A first-time author is drawn into the backstage world of a great theatre, with its egos, intrigues and endless rehearsals.
A mysterious stranger and his retinue arrive in 1930s Moscow, and the city meets a force that sets its own kind of order.