This simple love story of a young man from Baku and a girl from Moscow, unfolds during their studies in Germany. For some reason, he was called Odysseus, and she was considered Penelope. But, it turned out that their fates do not fit into these stereotypes. They were created in the life of the world.... They were unable to do so, and it was they who contributed to their separation. In fact, along with these two main characters, the central character here is a teacher of the Russian language. This is a very extraordinary woman trying to educate in her wards a correct understanding of many difficult events of German reality at the crossroads of centuries of millennia. It is for this reason that Charles de Gaulle and Conrad Adenauer, Hegel and Goethe, Sartre and Homer appear here as her most faithful allies in the comprehension of the truth.