In the industrial town of Nizhny Tagil, behind the Ural mountains, the pursuit of an impossible love story between the narrator and Ekaterina, a young woman descendant of noble family of Russian aristocracy - the Orlovs. Navigating between poetic illustrations of the passion that blossoms under our eyes, and schizophrenic wanderings in a hostile environment, the film opens in its second part to some characters linked to Ekaterina's world, offering an intimate and heart-breaking portrait of Russia.