In early 2017 Fartsa became one of the first Russian TV series to be sold to the world's largest American online video service, Netflix.

[1][2] Kostya Germanov has lost badly at cards, and is heavily in debt to organized criminals.

Novice writer Andrei, who has had a short story published in Yunost, returns to his hometown.

Episode 3: At the music-lover Boris's suggestion, the friends start producing and marketing illegal copies of records made on X-rays.

Episode 4: A year later, the friends reach a new level and begin to experiment with cinematographic equipment.

Major Vostrikov, Nadi's father, starts on the trail of the daring fartsovshchiki, unaware that he is well acquainted with the organizer of transactions.

Andrei gets drunk and does not attach importance to the disappearance of Tatiana, who is to meet with a foreigner at the National hotel to receive money.