“Nora Barges” tells the story of a family drama taking place among the Moscow intellectual elite. To annoy her dim-witted husband, a scientific businessman, the heroine starts an affair with a provincial girl who has come to conquer the capital. The tragic ending puts everything in its place. “Nora Barges” is a philosophical novel about the simple and the complex, men and women, Jews and Slavs, hunters and victims, temptation and choice.