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Nina Pokrovskaya is a happy wife and mother who once worked as an investigator. After the high—profile case of a serial killer, she left for her family, leaving her career to her husband, a high-ranking officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But one day, while taking pictures on the street, she accidentally shoots her husband with a young girl — at the moment when he should be on a business trip. Cheating ruins a normal life. Nina leaves, taking her son, and finds herself having to start over from scratch. Perhaps this is not the only mystery she will face.
For many years, separated by a river, two large families lived side by side in a remote Ural village: the Skolchins and the Ermakovs. After the revolution, they found themselves in two irreconcilable camps. But their children fell in love with each other, and the fates of the descendants of these two families became entwined in a tight tangle.
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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