Sergey and his girlfriend Tanya must postpone their matrimony, because he must do military service. When Sergey later disappears during a rescue mission, Tanya is depressed, but her family persuades her to marry Sergey best friend, Igor.
Anya Sergeievna comes to Moscow to meet her father who left her mother before Anya's birth.
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed....
Lysistrata led the women of ancient Greece in forcing men to stop the war, that was devastating the land. Lysistrata declared to women: "We must refrain from male altogether - till the men come to terms of peace".
Trapped between the unquiet past and an uncertain future, two former dissident Russian artists struggle to find meaning in post-cold war America.