A love story based on a classic play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The elder brother Yakov is mortally ill. The youngest, Ivan, a gendarme colonel, is completely confused and does not know how to get out of the situation created in the family.

Staged by the Leningrad Drama Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin.