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The eternal desire of a man to love a real and unique Woman paints different images in the imagination of screenwriter Ivan Gerasimov. From time to time he meets with the women of his dreams - a romantic young lady, a relaxed prostitute, a mysterious lady with a veil and - his wife - Ivan ceases to understand which of these women is reality, and which is only a figment of his imagination. In search of answers, he finds himself in the mystical station cafe Gendelyk. Thanks to the "accidental" meeting with Bartender and Sputnik, various emotional memories from life emerge in his memory: first love, funny oddities, moments of incredible happiness and unbearable suffering. These memories help Ivan understand himself and become free.
Usually on their birthday people run away from work to home, but Tanya runs away from home to work. Yet this day has become fatal for her - she was fired. She has nowhere else to run to, she doesn't want to go home. Will Tanya be able to meet herself, at least for a brief moment?
The boring every day life of a single 45 year old lady, tired of her job as a linguist, of fruitless searches for an apartment for her son, of loneliness and the absence of a man's attention. Her real estate manager friend offers her to do something new and attend a special massage course. But the decision to accept isn't as straight forward as it seems.
Sergey and Sveta live in Chernobyl. He is a truck driver at a radioactive waste plant while she works at a radioactive decontamination station. Their work and life are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm.
The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.
