خلاصه داستان : این فیلم در اوایل پاییز سال 1983 در مسکو، در فضای جنگ سرد خشونت آمیز (از جمله جنگ در افغانستان، حادثه ای با بوئینگ کره جنوبی و غیره) رخ می دهد. ...

Sonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator André.

خلاصه داستان : "آناتولی نووسلتف" در سازمان آمار کار می کند. رئیس او زنی نچندان جذاب و خشن است. دوست قدیمی او "یوری" به سمت معاونت رئیس سازمان منصوب شده و می خواهد او را مدیر بخش خود بکند اما با مخالفت رئیس مواجه می شود...

Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..