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Valentina, a youthful and attractive woman, works as a lecturer at a prestigious university. Her daughter Olga is only sixteen, yet she is already a student there. Mother and daughter live in perfect harmony despite having completely different personalities. But one day, discord enters their peaceful life and soon turns into open hostility. The reason is a young graduate student named Pavel. Valentina falls in love with him and believes that his romantic talks about first love are meant for her. However, Pavel’s true beloved is not Valentina at all — but her daughter Olga.
Tapeur, who introduced himself as a composer invites the young lady into the Movie Theatre of Baron Schmitt. Suddenly the seance turns into a tragedy — Baron presents to the audience a brand new miracle - the mechanical Pianola which replaced the Tapeur, and thus the young lady falls in love with the Baron.
Liza’s life seems completely hopeless. From morning till night, she sells fish at a wholesale market, endures her boss’s rudeness, and returns home to a nagging stepmother and a constantly drunk father. Every day, walking past the city’s central streets, she gazes longingly at the shop windows behind which lies another, fairy-tale world — a world of happy people. Just when Liza is ready to give up hope of changing her life, fate suddenly smiles on her: she gets a job at an elite flower salon. But on her very first day, she is fired — she has neither the upbringing nor the manners expected there. Even dressed in an expensive uniform, she still seems like a market vendor. Determined to change her fate, Liza decides to become a true lady and win her place back. Fortunately for her, Professor Levitin — a philologist, aristocrat, and refined gentleman — is looking for a student…
Psychologist Nastya Gracheva is a girl of strict rules from a decent family. She becomes disillusioned with men after the betrayal of the groom and decides on an unusual experiment. Nastya promises her colleagues to get married in the near future, but necessarily for love and with the help of the scientific method. Testing of the staff of her native institute points her to a suitable candidate — zoopsychologist Tema Maslov. The heroine suggests that he test her theory in practice: subjugate the heart to reason, fall in love with each other for the sake of science and deduce the formula of love in order to rid humanity of love suffering forever.
The documentary recreates the full picture of the disaster of the Kursk nuclear submarine missile cruiser on August 12, 2000.