Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.
This is a story of a blind girl who gets a chance of a lifetime. A rich man offers to her the precious gift of the eyesight, provided that she marries him blindly. This gift opens her eyes on the grim truth of life.
Produção dirigida pelo premiado diretor Alexei Uchitel, retrata as memórias de Matilda Kshesinskaya e seu caso de amor com o último czar da Rússia, Nicolau II, da dinastia Romanov. Ela foi uma bailarina de origem polonesa do Teatro Mariinsky, em São Petersburgo, enquanto ele não era ainda czar de fato, mas príncipe. Os dois viveram um breve porém intenso romance entre 1892 e 1894, terminando com o casamento de Nicolau com Alexandra Feodorovna, e a coroação dele após a morte do pai.
