خلاصه داستان : بخاطر ازدواجی ناموفق جراح مغز و اعصاب پیوتر دچار بحرانی هویتی می شود. حال قصد دارد با پذیرش کار در سیبری این موضوع را حل نماید.

Two young talented neurosurgeons — Pyotr and Sasha — are enthusiastically working on a complex medical experiment. But in search of stability and a better life, Pyotr goes to work in Stockholm, Sasha becomes a major official. Pyotrr's overseas life does not add up, and he returns to Moscow. Realizing that his friend has a completely different life, Pyotr goes to Siberia, where he works on an ambulance. There he meets a girl with a brain disease, the study of which he had once been involved in, but did not finish the job. Feeling in vain of a lived, failed life, a sense of professional guilt in front of this sick girl, whom no one can help, torment him, and he again recalls his true destiny.

خلاصه داستان : دانشمندان یک ایستگاه فضایی در مدار یک سیاره دور دست و ناشناخته قرار می گیرند که دارای خاصیت عجیبی است و با جسمیت بخشیدن به بدترین خاطرات زندگی فضانوردان باعث می شود آنان دوباره با عبور از آن تجارب دردناک مجازات شوند.

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.