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.…

Six years after Michail Gorbachev set the Soviet Union on the path to democracy and economic reform, the nation is torn apart by a three day coup that changes the future of the Soviet Union forever.