The Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity

It is a ferociously cold Moscow night. In a hotel car park, a man gets out of his car, takes off his hat and coat and lies down in the snow, as if he were going to bed to sleep. In the arctic conditions, he dies. From a window high up in the Hotel Rossiya, a couple looks down upon a figure lying in the snow. Hannah and Luke have just arrived in Moscow having travelled across Mongolia and Siberia. They had not seen the Russian leave his car, but they did see the police arrive, take notes, cover the body with a piece of matting, and then leave. 'The Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity' charts the story of Pyotr and Yuliya, living in the Soviet Union of the 1960s. Their tale is interwoven with that of Luke and Hannah travelling the trans-Siberian railway from Beijing to Moscow in the early years of the new millennium. Their paths collide during the festive season in Moscow, 2002. Set in Russia and China, this story traces two deeply founded relationships that provide insights into love's tenuous beginnings to its rewards and complexities, and its potential for tragedy.