Astrid and Lara tell their love story: Astrid from Berlin had the dream of founding a circus for street children in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she met Larissa, a theater director from Siberia. Larissa shared Astrid's dream, they started working together and… fell in love.

Astrid and Lara now live and work together in St. Petersburg and have forgotten about what's going on 'outside'. They're living their dream together with the children. But when they step outside of the “new land” they have created for themselves, they encounter difficulties. A banal, routine visa problem gives them trouble, so they decide to get married. But this decision catapults them headlong into a series of barriers – a marathon run through German and Russian bureaucratic procedure. It's not only the state offices throwing wrenches into the works; the prospect of saying 'I do' also leads the women to reflect upon questions of personal identity, their relationship, and how the prejudices of friends and relatives affect them and their relationship. The filmmakers accompany Astrid and Larissa for three months in Berlin and St. Petersburg, drawing an intimate portrait of the two women and their unusual-usual love story.