With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where - beneath layers of the ordinary - things turn out to be extraordinary.

Semyon Serzinas Petrov
Chulpan Khamatovaas Petrova
Vladislav Semiletkovas Petrov's son
Yuri Kolokolnikovas Igor
Aleksandr Ilyin Jras Viktor Mikhailovich
Nikolay Kolyadaas GAZelle driver
Yura Borisovas Sasha/Father Frost
Yulia Peresildas Marina/Snow-maiden
Olga Voroninaas Lida/Pioneer/Old woman/Poetess/Middle-aged damsel/Broadcaster/Drunk woman
Semen Shteinbergas Gera/Snowman/Journalist/Athlete/Caucasus native/The mean one