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"Tevye's Daughters" is an authentic tragicomedy directed by Vova Lert. The screenplay is based on the famous play "Memorial Prayer" by Grigori Gorin. This play has been successfully performed for more than thirty years around the Eastern Europe. It is the early XX century. Tevye the Dairyman lives in a small village in Ukraine. He is poor and believes that his daughters have one chance to escape poverty - a successful marriage. Tevye accepts a profitable proposition from a matchmaker, but his beautiful daughters have a different plan. The film was shot at historical locations in Ukraine where the original stories of "Tevye the Dairyman" took place. Tevye moved to the village of Zabirie in about 1873. The villagers are proud that Tevye and his wife Golda became prototypes of stories "Tevye the Dairyman" - the classics of Jewish literature written by Sholom Aleichem. In the 1900s Tevye has built a new house. Villagers recalled Tevye living there and being a kind and a very brave man. The house is still there, looking almost the same.

Mark and Yasha (played by Denis Nekyforov and Paul Piskin) are street smart fellows who have made their living by using life experience and common sense. Both Mark and Yash are considered noble bandits in a world of greed and violence. After surviving a childhood of challenges, the two look for stability in an otherwise chaotic city. Out of the blue, the pair learns that they have received a valuable inheritance. It seems Uncle Felix, the owner of a Pawn Shop, has bestowed an untold amount of money upon the two men. When the boys arrive at the shop to collect, they are met with opposition from those that wish to keep the boys from having what is rightfully theirs. Mark and Yash differ in how to handle the situation and each comes up with his own game plan to succeed in claiming the gift.