Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis

Sam Robards
Alexander aka "Sasha" Greenberg

F. Murray Abraham
Professor Gross

Ally Sheedy
Helen

Jicky Schnee
Jill

Valery Afanasyev

Mariya Andreeva

Anatoliy Goryachev

Aleksandr Pozharov

Andrey Sergeev

Oksana Stashenko
Natasha
Stepan Lapshin
young Listov

Stanislav Belyaev
Sasha Age 17
Viktor Cherepanov
Head of Film Studio
Mikhail Rayvicher
Sasha as a Schoolboy
Viktor Udochkin
University Dean