Vasili Zinkevich

Une jeune Finlandaise prend un train à Moscou pour se rendre sur un site archéologique en mer arctique. Elle est contrainte de partager son compartiment avec un inconnu. Cette cohabitation et d’improbables rencontres vont peu à peu rapprocher ces deux êtres que tout oppose.

Managing position at Nastenka Cleaning Service, whose employees are migrant girls from Asia, comes at the Muscovite Kirillov out of the blue. The situation is complicated by the fact that Kirillov is planning to leave for Norway and expecting his bride, a typical European with a rather rigid interpretation of freedom and tolerance, to come visit. The idea that she will learn about the exploitation of "women of the East" terrifies him and makes him prevaricate in order to hide his "harem"...