러시아를 충격에 빠뜨린 정유업계 재벌 게나디 소르킨의 조세 포탈 스캔들이 터진 지 몇 년이 흘렀다. 여러 증거들이 확보됐지만, 소르킨을 확실히 잡아넣으려면 핵심 서류 증거와 증인을 확보해야 한다. 크렘뇨프를 비롯한 요원 7명이 잠적했던 핵심 증인 미하일 셰링을 무사히 배달하는 임무에 차출된다. 하지만 무장 괴한들의 습격을 받고 크렘뇨프와 셰링을 제외한 전원이 사망한다. 크렘뇨프는 셰링을 안전한 곳으로 데려가 잠시 머무는데, 거기서도 그들의 위치가 노출돼 공격을 받는다. 이제 누구도 믿을 수 없는 상황에서, 갑자기 등장해 그들을 극적으로 구출해준 비밀요원 나디아는 크렘뇨프가 자리를 비운 사이, 셰링에게 거래를 제안하는데…
A young woman (Nastya) arrives in Moscow to study at the Conservatory and thinks her sister (Alya) will help her with a place to stay. Her sister, however, can only offer her to live in the hospital, where her son is waiting for a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, the only source of money for them is a rich family, more exactly Dmitri, a football related "businessman", for whom Alya has been working as a cleaning lady. Then comes the romance between Nastya and Dmitri, but...
The plot is not developed; in the film we see a man (he) and a woman (she) who, in fact, are neither connected nor familiar with each other; they casually met in hospital. "She" (Viktoria Tolstoganova) does not see that she is in danger in connection with her plan to use a tape with illegally made recordings as compromising evidence in court. "He" (Il'ia Shakunov, an actor of the Petersburg TYuZ) is a gay translator who, after the random meeting with her, is pursued by her image which frequently pops up in front of him. As a consequence, his relationship with a young boy no longer satisfies him. Both he and she lose sight of the meaning of life, because of their own inability to see others and to see love, as perception relies on proximity instead of distance.
A bizarre tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger workforce.
