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Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Russia is a beautiful, complicated place. Their guide is Macha, André's daughter from a previous relationship - a woman they both love. Adventure, inspiration, good food and good vodka are promised. Once thrilled by their romance, Nicole and André have now become too used to each other. Both harbour a growing feeling of not being fully understood - of being alone.

A Rouen, in quella Normandia asfittica su cui aleggia il fantasma letterario di Emma Bovary, Pierre e Françoise, raffinati intellettuali parigini, conoscono Xavière, una ragazzetta per la quale entrambi provano un morboso attaccamento. Sono gli anni a cavallo tra i Trenta e i Quaranta del Novecento, la Francia è sull'orlo della guerra e dell'occupazione, l'ultimo scampolo di leggerezza, forse, prima che il conflitto segni un'intera generazione.

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and social theorist. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy," including The Second Sex, published in 1949, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. The following is from a 1976 interview (in English).