The film has two story-lines or "realities". The main characters are lovers, Maria and Vasin who discover they have access to an alternate reality wherein missed opportunities have become realities. In the film's first act, subtitled "The Pilot", Maria finds that she is in love with Vasin again after rejecting his marriage proposal twenty years earlier, when he was a lieutenant in the Russian Air Force. Vasin also lives a life of regrets, and wishes he was able to pursue his unfulfilled dream of becoming a film director. In the second act, "A Film Director", Maria is transported into a different reality. In this reality, she marries Vasin, and he becomes a film director. The plot questions whether they are truly happy with each other, despite having their wishes granted.
소련군이 베를린을 침공했던 1945년 여성들은 강간과 폭력의 희생양이었다. 그 중에 한 명이 전직 언론인이자 사진작가(니나 호스)였다. 절망한 그녀는 자신을 보호해줄 수 있는 사람을 찾기로 결심하고, 소련군 지휘관인 안드레이(에브게니 시디킨)을 만난다. 이 만남은 복잡하고 상징적인 관계로 발전하게 되고, 씁쓸한 결론에 이르기까지 두 사람을 계속적으로 남게 한다. 1950년 작가 미상으로 출간되었던 동명의 소설을 원작으로 만들어진 영화로 1945년 소련군이 베를린을 점령했던 시기의 베를린의 모습을 담고 있다.
In this movie we follow fate not a person but car: first Soviet Lada. It starts with Brezhnev daughter and then gradually moves on parallel to last years of USSR into wild after-perestroika years with bandits and newly born oligarchs.
어느 영화 감독이 한순간 마술처럼 18세기 초의 상트페테르부르크의 에르미타주 궁으로 가게 된다. 어느 누구도 감독을 보지 못하지만, 오로지 검은 옷을 입은 남자만이 감독을 본다. 검은 옷의 남자는 19세기에서 온 프랑스 외교관이였다. 감독과 외교관은 격동의 러시아 한가운데에서 놀라운 역사의 현장을 목격한다.
In order to justify himself to the bigwigs of the criminal world, a young "gentleman of street luck", a former orphanage April is forced to take from the "godfather" of the mafia order to eliminate the two individuals who allegedly framed him. At the same time, one of the "targets" of April — confused in his relationship with crime businessman Vova — and he must save his life by agreeing to a very dangerous and questionable case. Naturally at one point their way — the roads intersect, but at the wrong time and in the most unexpected place. In just one night, the film's characters are trying to solve their problems, find the truth and, perhaps, pay a high price for it…
