About the title
Mornings — work at the ethnography museum, evenings — the news on REN TV, weekends — rallies and sex with her ex-husband, a mid-level scientist. Liza is a typical representative of the St. Petersburg intelligentsia. Vika is an ordinary provincial girl. For her, a vacation in St. Petersburg means vodka, parties, and adventures. It would seem the two have nothing in common. But by a twist of fate, they meet — and hit it off: water and fire, a bluestocking and a party girl, the intelligentsia and the common folk. Liza and Vika are two sides of the same coin named Russia.