Tear Jerker / The Irony of Fate

• The song that Zhenya plays while he is confined to a single room by Nadya's mother without having had any opportunity to explain himself, and Nadya is heading to the train station to buy him a ticket back to Moscow. "Ya sprosil u yasenya" is probably the saddest, most dramatic moment in this otherwise barrel-of-laughs comedy.
  • The lyrics of the song especially. It is about a man who asks the trees, the rain, the moon, and the clouds where his lover is, and none of them can answer him. He finally asks his best, truest friend where she is, who then reveals that the man's lover is now the friend's wife. The song then book-ends itself, "I asked the ash-tree, I asked the autumn, I asked the poplar..."