p Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetings with Maskim These flashbacks occur throughout the film and both Valentina and Nadia have them Finally news arrives of Maskim 三九 s return to Valentina On the day of his return Nadia cooks a meal for them both and leaves before they arrive, Valentina never knew of Nadia 三九 s encounters with Maskim, and Maskim will never know of Nadia 三九 s time with Valentina p