Klava Ivanova and Pyotr Spirin work in the same railroad depot. They have a strange relationship. Clava, who tenderly and devotedly loves the frivolous Pyotr, one day decides to break up with him.
A female commissar is sent to the naval detachment, led by the anarchist Vozhak, on behalf of the Party Central Committee. She is tasked with subordinating the sailors to the cause of the revolution.
Love overtook the famous conductor in Russia, which he had once abandoned. But the young beloved, old enough to be his daughter, the pianist Lizaveta, apparently really is his daughter...