Durante el reinado de terror de Stalin, Evgenia Ginzburg, una profesora de literatura, fue enviada a trabajos forzados durante 10 años en un gulag en Siberia. Después de haber perdido todo, y ya no desear vivir, conoce al médico del campo y comienza a volver a la vida.
Carmen Legg, a tall sporty red-head, is fed up with men and their one-track minds. She is thirty something, drives her own BMW, lives in her own apartment and likes to run her own life the way she wants it. What she needs, Carmen decides, is a man with higher things on his mind. So with her friend, an eighty-year-old neighbour with a traumatic past, she places a rather unusual advertisement...
