在这部东方号列车纪录片片中,在横穿西伯利亚“东方号”的三等车厢上，坐立难安的人们分享食物，百无聊赖，对着陌生人告解来打发时间。伴着法国女演员范妮·亚当朗诵的茨維塔耶娃的诗歌，影片以一种文学对位的形式描绘着他们的孤独，以及他们对爱和自由的渴望。
Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.
