The Three Colors of Love

This is the story of extraordinary, all-consuming, and destructive love that begins on September 1, 1966 when the three main characters - Sergei Samokhvalov (Sam), Sasha Karpinsky, and Max Sokolov - go to school and on their very first day meet the beautiful Masha Petrova. They all fall in love with her. Over the next thirty years, the many colors of life paint the experiences of the main characters, sometimes in dark tones, sometimes in light, as they grow up during the fateful turning points of Russia - perestroika, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the opening of the borders, Ponzi schemes, and the crime boom of the 1990s.
Each of the characters has their own experience of those years, and each man has continued to love Masha - which leads all four to a tragic outcome. Sergei, Sasha, and Max were all involved with Masha at various times. This four-sided love story is made even more complicated by one more man - Masha`s first husband, Gena Utyomov.