Their wedding on Menorca was multilingual on purpose. Spanish, Catalan / Menorcan, and Russian all had a voice in the room — not as decoration, but as proof of who they are.
Susanna, David’s sister, brought the family’s humor into the ceremony. She turned Alexandra’s path from Saint Petersburg to Spain into something almost like a modern fairy tale: Barceloneta beaches, Menorca light, jokes about David’s beard making him look fifty at thirty-four, and the affectionate image of a “Russian writer.” The laughter mattered. It kept the day human.
Through Susanna also comes one of the day’s strongest echoes: marriage as a daily choice. Then David answers that idea with his own promise — to choose Alexandra again tomorrow.
From Alexandra’s side, her friend Masha speaks in Russian. If Susanna carries David’s world, Masha carries Alexandra’s. And at the end, the declaration itself exists in both cultures: in Russian, too — “I now pronounce you husband and wife… You may kiss.”
Friends fill in the rest of the portrait. Carlos speaks about terrace nights, hard seasons, and friendship that stays. Anastasia remembers Alexandra before Spain, before the turn. Alyona, Alexandra’s cousin, sees Spain as a turning point and David as someone warm and steady. The film is not only about two people saying vows. It is about the people who already know what those vows mean.
