Natalya Lvova

A successful doctor is visited by her old friend, a famous writer. They used to be close, but their friendship ended when they both fell in love with the same man. At first, their reunion seems to be going well, but as they talk, their old grudges and resentments resurface and threaten to ruin their renewed connection.

Médecin chef et spécialiste du cerveau, Youri Glinski est également général de l'Armée rouge. 1953 : sa vie de père de famille bascule quand, à l'initiative de Staline, le KGB organise le complot des blouses blanches. Il est envoyé au goulag et torturé. Mais lorsque le Petit père des peuples se meurt, Youri est libéré pour le sauver.

A fat middle-aged man in German officer's uniform gets off a train somewhere in Russia in winter. He is a doctor who has just been called up we learn eventually. This is the end of the line- the Germans are about to retreat. He goes to a hospital which is being evacuated and is thrown out. Kicked out he wanders with another conscript- a failed actor turned postman. The postman is deafened by a shell explosion. They meet their Russian equivalents, others as bad at killing as they are, while other Russians and Germans kill one another around them.