Evgeny and Evgenia share the same name, difficult personalities, and complicated personal lives. He is in love with his best friend's fiancée, she is having an affair with her boss. The young people meet by chance at a party and instantly feel mutual... antipathy toward each other. But that doesn't stop them from ending up in the same bed. But afterwards everything becomes even more complicated.

USSR, 1979. A guy meets a girl at a party. The girl is a hairdresser, the guy helps his father at a meat-processing plant. Soon a son is born and the couple become a family. The beginning of 2004. The boy has grown into a lyric poet but, nevertheless, follows the father’s footsteps and works at the meat-processing plant. A reflection on happiness gets him into a dead end, from which, apparently, there is no way out. But here in his life enters the accountant Liubov, or Love, and there comes the time of the wedding…