Dina Korzun

Tanya, young and naïve, leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancé. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya and her son find themselves virtually imprisoned in a dead-end seaside resort where all refugees are forced to live. Desperate to escape their nightmarish world, Tanya forges an unusual alliance with amusement arcade manager Alfie.

Laura, a young woman from Russia, lives in Memphis with her boyfriend, aging music legend Alan James. When Alan’s estranged grown-up son, Michael, shows up in Memphis for the first time in years, his initial hostility to Laura soon turns into something much more, and they embark on an affair.

Bogged down by his preparation for a Chekhov play, an anxious actor has his soul temporarily removed by a doctor, who then loses it.