A middle-aged theater director is about to stage a play from Dostoevskji's unfinished novel. He lives in a large house similar to a maze that hides a secret. Attracted to young women, he has had many in his life, but he has loved very few and to these few, he dedicates a constant and mysterious cult.

A man with a fragile state of mind will battle with his past in the effort to understand who he has become and which actions he thinks to have committed.