An artist named Nikitin, who had come to Odessa to shoot a film, was the victim of a completely brazen attack. Only the intervention of a police sergeant who happened to be passing by saved him from certain death.
Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.