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.
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.
Anya Sergeievna comes to Moscow to meet her father who left her mother before Anya's birth.