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In this episode Polina meets her Australian host, with whom she is to spend a week watching Harry Potter and eating apple puree.

She needs to decide whether to wait for a magical reappearance of her documents in some police office or to apply for the Russian emergency travel document which would mean that if the documents are later found, they will be destroyed by Russian authorities.

She is also in a need to find two Russian citizens who can come with her to the Embassy to confirm that Polina is Polina. She doesn't have any Russian friends in Paris but she is advised to do so by the Embassy: "Don't have friends in Paris? Find them. There is no other way". It appears to be very easy as the Russian community in Paris is large and supportive. Polina's story flies all over the community. Her Australian host comes to say that his French colleague's Russian wife was about to help some Russian girl. It turns out that he is actually the one hosting that Russian girl.

Polina finally comes to the Embassy with two sweet girls, one of whom she was meant to meet years before as they share too many friends from their hometown of Perm. The whole experience and procedure at the Embassy are between interesting and creepy. The same description goes for the embassy's toilets. The girls are surprised to find out that there are people who come to the Embassy to lie about their identity just to get Russian documents. For them it is kind of a joke.

Polina leaves the Embassy with a small green paper and with some sort of satisfaction; she can now enter Russia. She is glad to once again reconfirm to herself that Russian girls are amazing. Nonetheless, Russian guys can be amazing too. One Russian guy living in the Netherlands, whose existence Polina never knew about, saw Polina's misfortunes on Facebook and bought her a new Kindle with direct delivery to replace the stolen one.

After a little fight with Air France Polina gets a ticket to Moscow. She is ready to leave Paris, knowing that Air France is not a company she would ever be happy to fly with again.