“Fictional Events and Random Coincidences,” the debut novel by screenwriter and documentary director Tatyana Butovskaya, takes place among the creative intelligentsia of the USSR in the 1980s. Here, “perestroika, glasnost, euphoria” are just the scenery in which the next act of an enduring drama about women and their men is played out. Alexandra Kamilova, an aspiring documentary director, experiencing a painful and forbidden romance with her colleague, a man of the East, believes that this is - “love that lasts longer than life.” Alexandra’s friends, each also going through a midlife crisis in their own way, are trying to reason with her, but in their hearts they themselves want to believe in “eternal love.” Three women, who simultaneously find themselves at the crossroads of fate, must make, perhaps the most difficult choice in their lives .