An artist from Petersburg follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north of Russia. She starts teaching art in a local school, but soon finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy from her class, whose brother is a local gang leader.

In the last months of the Nazi occupation, an Italian engineer, inspired by love, decides to lift the spirits of his war-ravaged community by inventing the unique motorbike: the Vespa.

Russian military base, Kyrgyzstan.Maria, a wife of a deputy commander of the base, begins a relationship with another officer. Their affair quickly spirals out of control, fatally and irreversibly.

Falling in love with Queen Victoria’s dashing grandson Eddy opens new worlds for the cosseted Princess Hélène of France, but the possibility of their marriage unleashes a political and emotional storm