Flights in Dreams and in Reality

Sergei Makarov (Oleg Yankovsky) turns forty soon, and he cannot account for the years behind him. He is gifted and well liked, and still he has built nothing that lasts. Roman Balayan follows him through his marriage, his affair with a younger woman and his friendships, and each of them has gone quiet around him. Beside Larisa (Lyudmila Gurchenko), his wife, he can only watch what he never gave her.