April 1, 1993
An impoverished Russian aristocrat spends his days in a fashionable German town waiting for news from Russia about the death of his rich grandmother, so that he can repay his debts to a troubled French adventurer and marry his troubled cousin. His stepdaughter Polina also expects the inheritance.
January 1, 2000
A rather original outlook on the relationships of two great Russian writers Dostoevsky and Turgenev and their roles in the future fate of Russia.