全片分上下集，是关于一个女人对爱情所作的决定。女主人公任尼亚离开丈夫来到情人安德里安诺夫身边，但是情人的爱情观很快又使得她离开。经过长时间的精神折磨，她遇到了另一个年轻的追求者尤拉，但是这次她犹豫了。
这部电影的编剧格布里罗维奇是苏联剧作大师，毕生从事剧本创作和剧作教学工作。他的作品虽都不是自己导演，但都带有独特的风格痕迹。

Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

Oleg (Oleg Basilashvili) is in for a really strange time, that much is clear. Of course, just the fact of his desire to visit a gypsy fortuneteller in the first place is an indication of that. He's well past middle age, in his 50s, and is an established, well-known writer. When the fortuneteller told him the same thing (you will have an unusual time), he didn't really believe her. However, when he runs into a 25-year old man in his apartment claiming the same parentage, profession, name and birthday - as well as having a scar over his eye identical to the one older Oleg has, it seems like the prediction has already come true - but it is just beginning. Oleg the younger (Andrei Sokolov) says he's leaving for Israel in the morning, but between then and now, he's at Oleg the older's disposal. For some reason, the presence of this near-doppelganger lends the older man courage and recklessness unlike anything he ever had before, and as he sets things right and gets revenge for previous slights, strange adventures abound. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

这部三幕剧均以大酒店719室为背景，讲述了三对夫妻、情人和家庭在同一个地点发生的不同的情感冲突：结婚二十四年的老夫妻，人过中年一心唤回往昔温情，功成名就的制片人试图找回初恋的感觉，难以言说的复杂心绪，举家欢庆的婚礼上，临阵脱逃的新娘又究竟有哪些隐衷……丰富的故事情节、生动的人物、较强的戏剧冲突，一起搭建起该剧强烈的喜剧效果。

由小说改编的这部连续剧创作手法很奇特，有现实中的人，有魔鬼，有历史中的人。他们在小说中相互交织，魔鬼可以来人间，人可以在天上飞可以参加撒旦的宴会，人可以丑陋无比，魔鬼可以淘气可爱。小说中又包含小说，让人眼花缭乱。小说有三条线索：

　　1．魔王沃兰德造访莫斯科并且观察这个莫斯科社会

　　2．大师与玛格丽特的爱情故事

　　3．本丢·彼拉多的千年悔恨