Jude, a college literature professor, falls for one of his students. She is more interested in the empirical experience of a relationship@sisifa@ with a man whose life is ruled by the themes of the Russian Lit. he extolls in class. Jude shows an interesting side of the stigmas associated with transgenerational relationships and how to@陪我走到世界的尽头@ deal with the inevitable pain of a love doomed to failure.