A retired geography teacher Leonid (Veniamin Smekhov) and an ethnic German woman Elsa (Irina Pechernikova) meet and fall in love. Their friends and family are appalled: both Elsa and Leonid are in their 70s. They declare war on this relationship - which to them seems indecent, inconvenient, and threatening to the material well-being of the couple's children and grandchildren.