SUMMARY:  Is sad story.  Pig and Ass, they tell us this sad story.  Is tale of bureaucrat and young love.  Is tale of Lenin and Mother Russia and a Russian mother.  Is sad.  Is good.  Da?  Mikhail and Svetlana, they burn with forbidden passion, but they both are married.  Svetlana's husband is Stanislov, a bureaucrat who turns to his portrait of Lenin for advice.  He is frustrated and unhappy, for passion with his wife, it is gone.  His only comfort is his obedient daughter, Anika.  Elsewhere, Mother Anna, she finds her son Yuri a disgrace.  He wants to make her proud.  They have no rubles, but he must bring home meat.  But how?  On the road, he meets Anika, and it seems that it is love into which they fall.  Is good?  Or no?