In the movie "Sovremennik" No. 46 tells about social problems in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The city of Nizhny Novgorod, 1991. Schoolchildren in the Gaidar Library leaf through magazines. The head of the library, Vera Nikolaevna, talks about the instructions of the SES, about the possibility of closing the library (sync., Behind the scenes). The athlete is preparing for a karting competition. The coach says about the closure of the children's sports club due to a lack of funding. A young man walks into the house with buckets of water. Kind of toys and cribs in the room. Kitchen furnishings: table, crockery, large trough, clothesline drying. A man with children is sitting on the couch, reading a book. View of one of the city's microdistricts. A two-story wooden house, a broken fence. The girl sits in a sled in the yard. Panorama of the wasteland: children, a man and a woman are running at the garbage dump.