In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair.

Berlin, the 1920s, a boarding house where Russian immigrants live. One of the characters in the film, waiting for his wife's arrival, shows her photo to a neighbor at the boarding house, who recognizes her as his first love, Masha.…

The granddaughter Masha unexpectedly arrives at the home of Professor Okaemov. It is not easy for her to understand the complex, reserved nature of her grandfather. However, life, which entered the house with the arrival of the girl, cannot leave the old man indifferent. He finds joy and fulfillment in the newfound sense of responsibility for his granddaughter's fate.

A little girl arranges a concert to cheer up her new doll, who is sad.

A profile of the novelist and artist, his rich and productive life and a view of his working quarters in Montreux, for which the producer Robert Hughes went to Switzerland.

Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered one of the world's greatest writers, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. Here, Plummer portrays the witty Nabokov, providing an entertaining and insightful lecture upon "Metamorphosis," Kafka's bizarre story about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a giant bug.