Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Windsor Armstrong is a polished Harvard educated African-American professor of Russian literature. Her son Pushkin X is an exceedingly famous pro-football player an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing however is that her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian migr who also happens to be a lap dancer. For Windsor this is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the source of it she embarks on a journey into her own rich past. As she moves ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her son don''t add up to the beauty of the truth.