

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.

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 th...