While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

A girl escapes from a village that has been burned by the Nazi. She meets a traveling circus troupe. Soon the troupe is confronted by the Nazi and only a juggling girl can save one of them.