"I better tell you on which rooftops we were shagging", suggests Pavel, Tatjana's first love and conception of romance incarnate. The two look out over Moscow's skyline as they reminisce about their four-year courtship, played out against the libidinous backdrop of Glasnost, Perestroika and toilet paper shortages. Memories come flooding back. "You screwed it up between us", he recalls. "Let the camera film this. You are the one who screwed up."

She travels as she used to, from one otherworldly man to the next: totems of different loves and passions, idols to be adored - if only for a while. We soon come to realise that her life has been not so much a search, as a parade - from one love to the next: a succession of oceanic feelings and determined commitments, each unlike the last, but all ultimately amounting to the same thing. "You're just like me", Tatjana's mother reminds her before passing away. "You'll never be happy."

In this playful exploration of flaws, failures, and incompatible impulses, one woman questions herself, her friends, and her one-time lovers in an effort to understand whether the kind of cosmic unity she so earnestly seeks can ever be found in her own relationships. Or whether, like the Russian novels through which she views much of her own experience, she is fated to search in vain through banal sexual encounters in elevator shafts and among the rooftops. "Men have this extraterrestrial power to make me one with the universe. Men. Oh, men."

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Winner - Best Editing, Gouden Kalf 2014
Special Jury Mention, Sarajevo Film Festival 2014
Official selection, Prague One World Film Festival 2015
Official Selection, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
Official Selection, FilmFest Munich 2014
Official Selection, ZagrebDOX 2014
Official Selection, Luxembourg City Film Festival 2014
Official Selection, MakeDox 2014
Official Selection, Milano Film Festival 2014