About Love (2015) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

The open lecture 'About Love' at the Strelka

An audience gathers at the 'Strelka' to listen to an open lecture titled 'About Love.' The female lecturer blends scientific interpretations of the organism's biological processes with reflections on the high feelings about which poems and music are written. The lecture is accompanied by experiences and experiments in which the listeners themselves become participants.

Where

Strelka, Moscow

Police raid the anime club

Police raid a club where members of the anime movement gather for free communication. Among the detainees are Himea and Taito, who have been in a relationship for six months but have never seen each other without images. The raid forces the couple to finally confront what their romance really is.

Where

Anime club

Anime personas succeed where tradition fails

After the raid, Himea and Taito decide to date in the traditional sense, but their attempt fails. They form a successful relationship only after dressing as anime characters. A lonely police officer, who has already attracted interest from someone in the club, decides to do the same.

Mass dismissals amid the economic crisis

A successful businessman calls his employees together and announces that, due to the economic crisis, he is dismissing the entire team. The news leaves the whole office shocked and uncertain about what comes next.

Where

Office

Liza's indecent proposal

Liza, the office manager, is at a loss because there will soon be nobody left to make coffee for. Her boss, who is attracted to her, offers to keep her employed in exchange for sex. She is left overwhelmed by doubts about the proposal she has received.

Where

Office

Doubts strain Liza and Grisha's relationship

Liza's agonizing over the businessman's proposal begins to affect her relationship with her boyfriend Grisha. Grisha has already been unemployed for three months and spends all his time on the computer, deepening the rift between them.

Liza accepts on the eve of a proposal

Liza decides to accept the businessman's offer. What she does not know is that Grisha will propose to her that very evening, making her fateful decision all the more heart-wrenching.

When

That evening

Miyako arrives at the festival of Russian culture

Representatives of different nations come to Moscow for a festival of Russian culture, among them a Japanese woman named Miyako. One of her main goals is to find a Russian husband. To do this, she uses a dating site to organize several dates, associating each candidate with a musical note.

Where

Moscow

The matryoshka suitor's deception

The candidate Miyako chooses to invite to her room is the man who gave her a matryoshka. He is revealed to be married with children and simply interested in having sex with as many foreign women as possible. Frustrated, Miyako leaves the encounter betrayed.

Where

Hotel room

A kindred spirit behind the neighboring door

Frustrated, Miyako knocks at the door of a neighboring room where another festival participant lives — a Japanese guy from her hometown. He turns out to be the only one with whom she can truly discuss the Russian soul and Russian culture. After talking all night and performing the song 'Gop-Stop' on the guitar, they fall in love.

When

Night

Where

Neighboring hotel room

Boris's wife uncovers his secret graffiti

Boris is a public figure who advocates demolishing the monuments that disfigure the city's face, while secretly working as a graffiti artist who paints the women he falls in love with on its boring walls. His wife discovers the hobby after tracking him down through Instagram.

Rivals meet under the cover of night

Under the cover of night, Boris's wife tries to destroy one of his graffiti drawings. During the attempt she runs into her rival — the woman whose image has just been destroyed — and the two get acquainted.

When

Night

Where

City streets

A bright night and an unusual household

The wife and the rival spend a bright night in the city, after which they return home together, where their beloved artist sleeps. The three of them decide to live together as an unconventional trio.

Where

Boris's home

The lecturer's paid consultation with her ex

The heroine of the final story is the lecturer herself. She organizes a sexual encounter with a man who turns out to be her ex, who proposed to his girlfriend the day before but does not wish to get married. He then applies for a paid consultation with her.

The voodoo spell and a new muse

During the consultation, the ex discovers that his girlfriend used several magic spells, including a voodoo doll, to keep him bound. Asked to remove the love spell, the lecturer refuses and, taking the promised fee, leaves. On the street she meets the artist Boris, for whom she becomes a new object of inspiration.

Where

Street