Moscow, June 1941. Nina Sinitsyna (Olga Arntgolts) and Ilya Borisov (Ivan Kolesnikov) live on opposite sides of a stairwell landing in an apartment building; she, the daughter of a seamstress, in a crowded 'kommunalke' ('communal apartment'), and he, a medical student and the son of a famous surgeon, in a spacious, private, single-family apartment. They are deeply in love, but, enforcing the rigid class boundaries of this 'classless society', their parents have forbidden them to see each othe ...[Read Story ]