Darya Semyonova

A story of separation and reunion unfolding in an astronomers' village – a place where space isn't screened off by streetlights or the noise and bustle of the city.

Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.

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In present day Moscow three childhood friends in their forties - former school band players - live their everyday lives of a police officer, a taxi driver and a surgeon. They have lost track of each other. Three stories of betrayal, love and ageing are told in parallel. In fact, unknown to our heroes, their paths cross and their lives become connected. But they are not aware of it even when they reunite for a breaking performance at their graduation anniversary.

Three short stories – "Irina", "Mitya", "Seryozha" – are three days from the life of a modern business woman, her adult son and her grandson, whose existence the father and grandmother find out only five years after his birth.