The Blonde Around the Corner

Former astrophysicist Nikolai Gavrilovich (Andrei Mironov (actor)) who spent fifteen years in a fruitless search for extraterrestrial life, neither aspiring or succeeding to acquire material wealth in life, by fate gets the post of a porter at a local self-service supermarket, where he falls in love with Nadezhda (Tatyana Dogileva), a cute blonde salesgirl of the gastronomic department, whom as it turned out to he saw every morning at the bus stop. She is also fond of him. It is immediately obvious that the businesslike and living below her means Nadezhda is the antithesis of Nikolai - she is practical, penetrating, knows all the "right people" (and she herself is such). But at the same time she is a hopeless romantic and listens to Nikolai's stories about his scientific quests.