A worn-out poet finds peace in his heart as he lays his Lermontov medal at the foot of the sacred angel a prosperous suburbanite contemplates his predicament when his wife joins the cast of a nude show a guileless and romantic well digger, anxious for a bride, visits Russia, falls in love and returns home 'singing the unreality blues' and a miserably married man fantasizes a beautiful lover who comes to him for strength, love and counsel while he tends the charcoal grill in the backyard