He and She, both of them spend a Christmas night together. They did not meet each other although they shared the old house for many years. Their engagement took place only in the mirror image of the distant Japanese prose of Heian period.

The film has two main characters, they are representative of Russian intelligentsia who have emigrating to their own cultural space. She is a Japanese translator who works at museum, he is a man without a definite occupation, lover of Nietzsche's texts (which he reads fluently in its original language) and St. Augustine (who is quoted in Latin). A couple have as much differences that it is difficult to understand what keeps them together. It seems they live together, not because of, but rather in spite of everything that is happening (or rather, not happening) between them. Most of the action take place in a country house, home to the pair, not far from Moscow on Christmas night.