Crown Matrimonial
by Royce Ryton

THE STORY: Bella works in a tractor factory in Minsk, circa 1989.

All of her friends and family seem to be going capitalist, but poor Bella is behind the times and longs to fulfill her childhood dream of belonging to the Communist Party.

She's finally admitted, but her factory supervisor Oglokov blackmails her into seducing and discrediting Giorgi, his arch rival for a top Party position.

Against her good judgment, but forced by subtle extortion directed against her mother, Bella succumbs and devises an elaborate plot to catch Giorgi in a compromising position in the mens room of a Soviet disco, but she soon falls in love with Giorgi instead.

From then on, Bella must resort to a whirlwind of farcical plots and counter-plots to keep Oglokov in the dark, her mother out of jail, and Giorgi by her side.