Love triangle on Nevsky, 66: Alice, fat, smart, evil: “I don’t need to know anything! I want to be able to talk about everything, so that people think that I am an intelligent person from a good family, I have a good education. Why should I read War and Peace? I need one phrase so that I can say it and everyone will shut up and think “O-o-o!”.” Pyotr Ilyich, a good boy: “What, but I understand love. What is my knowledge based on? On Kuprin’s “Pit.” NN, St. Petersburg intellectual: “I knew everyone who was someone, and everyone who was someone knew me.” Hired by Alice's millionaire father to make an intelligent person out of the girl in three months. Love, imaginary and real in the enchanting story of modern Pygmalion. An apartment near the Anichkov Bridge turns into the most extraordinary place in the world, where a new personality is molded from “terrible material”, where good and base feelings, business and metaphysics are mixed, where they betray and sacrifice themselves, and a chance meeting determines fate...