خلاصه داستان : کاتیا ، یک کتابدار جوان ، به عشق اعتقاد دارد. اما ایده آل های او توسط واقعیت خرد می شوند. پس از یک سری روابط ناامید کننده ، کاتیا سرانجام در آغوش همکارش ، یک روزنامه نگار به نام تانیا ، لطافت و درک می یابد.

Katya, a young librarian, believes in love, but her ideals are crushed by reality. After a string of disappointing affairs, Katya finally finds tenderness and understanding in the arms of her colleague, a journalist called Tanya. But then the First Department interferes: the state security services see this relationship as unacceptable for a Soviet woman.

خلاصه داستان : نیکیتا نکراسوف فیزیکدانیست که جهان ما و دنیاهای ماورا الطبیعه را مطالعه می‌کند. او از انتخاب میان ریاضیات و فیزیک یا حتی بین یک زن و دیگر زنان، اجتناب می ورزد و این درحالی است که...

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of the multi-universe. At scientific conferences, attended by eminent foreign scientists and a rising younger generation of physicists alike, Nekrasov gets carried away debating the beauty of string theory. He attempts to explain to all of his women – Katya, the librarian, Zoya, the scientific secretary, Svetalana, the head of department – about the theory of his own polygamy, and the possibility of having enough feelings to satisfy everyone.