as a function for dummies?
For the simple folk.
- Vadim Alekseevich, I'll run to the grocery
to get some pasta?  - Alright.
More simply?
As a space-time loop.
- How do we perceive time?
- As past, present, and future!
Good girl!
But there is also another theory
that the past, present, and future...
exist simultaneously.
See. It's all close.
And if we imagine time...
as a spiral...
then we are right here,
and she is below us. In the past.
Let's suppose there is such a place
where these two points are touching.
First time the two of you connected was
on the New Year night, right?
Exactly at midnight,
when the change of years happened.
Old year came to an end,
the new one hadn't yet started...
you and her were both at point zero.
The two spirals came into contact.
Something locked them in.
And energy exchange became possible.
Two straight parallel lines intersected!
I mean no.
Not intersected, but established contact.
Through luminiferous aether.
But the two spirals will never merge together.
You'll stay in your time dimension,
and she'll stay in hers.
Hello!
Hi! What are you doing?
I'm sleeping.
Isn't it too early for that?
Isn't it too late for phone calls?
I thought maybe we should meet.
I can stop by.
- What for?
- To talk.
Are you home?
No.
What do you mean, no?
It means what it means.
- He wanted to get back together
and you said no?  - Yeah.
Upon my word!
Listen...
that means Vika is having a new affair.
The cat lost out on a bowl of milk after all.
I only regret that I wasted
a year of my life on that cat.
Good day!
- Did Andrey call?
- No.
Merrily! Energetically!
With fire in your eyes!
Not like last time...
No one is dying here...
Start from 3rd line!
Let's stop this circus.
You wanted to make me angry,
you've succeeded.
I was wrong.
I regret my actions, and I'm asking
you out to a restaurant. Any restaurant.
Whichever you choose.
Too late. First of all.
Second, I'm not single anymore.
- What are you doing! Villain!
- Have you lost your mind?
Yes, I've lost my mind!
When I spent New Year with that dumb girl!
Would you take a better look at yourself?!
Still she wants me!
The police wants you!
How boring!
Andrey, this is urgent.
Presentation on our new equipment.
It needs to be moved to next week.
So be it. Can you imagine?
If I happen to go away for a year,
everything is taken apart.
You didn't forget?
That today we are celebrating
my birthday?
No.
I was hoping to receive as a present...
something special.
Masha, what for?
Vadim loves you.
So be happy together.
Cat!
Look.
That's it. Let's dance!
Sit down for a second.
A toast!
To my beloved Marie!
Bottoms up! Everyone!
- Hello!
- Hi!
- It's me.
- I'm so happy to hear you.
Is everything alright?
Yes.
Now it is.
I was afraid that I will never
hear your voice again.
I don't know your last name
or your address.
I even called you several times,
but the lady's voice in the phone informed me, "Unfortunately you cannot place a call into the future,
yes, and you cannot send a text message
there either."
Well, of course.
The future hasn't happened yet.
Listen...
Let's go to a cafe together.
- Right now?
- Is it late?
- On the contrary, it's a great idea.
- Awesome.
I have one very cozy place in mind.
Leaving already?
Forgive me.
Time for me to go.
Is she better than me?
She is just different.
It's all so strange.
If Rita told me this,
I'd never believe her.
To be talking to a person
from the future!
Why dramatize it so!
We can go and meet each other tomorrow. We're not on different planets, after all.
You'll meet with me there?
And I'll meet you here?
It's a bit awkward.
Just imagine, I'll come over
to you tomorrow and say,
"Hello! I met you in the future."
You'll think I'm a loony.
But you won't be able to see me.
All of last year I spent in Austria.
An avid skier?
A translator.
Our firm had a massive
building project there
and