- Mark Norris is 42, divorced, and disillusioned with modern relationships. He lives in the city, but his heart is in cyberspace. He believes in love, but a more old fashioned, romantic type of love. The kind of love that he finds offered by Russian women looking for partners on the Internet.—Anonymous
- Mark Norris is 42, divorced, and disillusioned with modern relationships. He lives in the city, but his heart is in cyberspace. He believes in love, but a more old fashioned, romantic, type of love. The kind of love that he finds offered by Russian women looking for partners on the Internet.
But are they for real or are they looking for a ticket out of Russia?
Mark meets two Russian women on the Net and arranges to visit them in their home cities in Russia. Alla is a beautiful 27-year-old doctor from Omsk in Siberia, one of the coldest places on the planet. Alena 28, is also beautiful and comes from Rostov on Don, the Mafia capital of Russia. She has a dark secret.
In episode 1 Mark meets Alena in St Petersburg, the elegant city of the Czars, now riddled with crime and Mafia. Alena is not the impoverished Russian woman Mark expected. She wears mink and diamonds, she is smart and savvy, but she is also charming and old fashioned, and very mysterious in her connections.
Mark learns that her father is a police chief, a very prosperous police chief, and even if they have no evidence to prove it, people in Russia automatically presume that police are working with the Mafia. The fact that Alena is from the Mafia capital of Russia does nothing to dispel Marks interest in her.
She returns to Rostov, inviting Mark to follow later. But Mark travels to Siberia for the pre-arranged meeting with Alla, the doctor from Omsk.They take a journey together to Lake Bakail in the middle of winter. They share an exotic adventure, travelling on skis, by Troika, and eventually on the Trans Siberian Railway. The combination of Siberia in deep winter, and Alla in his arms is intoxicating for Mark.
He never anticipated finding love when he went on the Internet, now he was totally confused in his desire for two completely different women. But are they for real? Or just looking for tickets out of Russia.
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