For several years, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich traveled around in Russia and Belarus to investigate the relationship to love of the Russian people. One, as Svetlana means, is an acute shortage of today's society.

For several years, Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich investigated Russian people's relationship of love. Which, she means, is an acute shortage of today's society. Documentary film director StaffanJulén followed her work and together they depict a process driven by equal parts of political, artistic and humanistic forces.

This film has been developed from a series of interviews conducted by Svetlana Alexievich for her forthcoming book on love. Even though the stories focus on love, it is inevitable that they are also broad epic stories from the everyday life of the Russian people. Love that survives oppression and persecution. Young well-educated women who can not find equal men or love crushed by war and disasters. One question asked in the interviews was: Why is it so difficult for people to describe happiness in the Russian culture?—Ulf Kjell Gür