Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”
Anna Alexeyevna, once married not for love, had long since come to terms with both her boring husband and her unhappy life. One day, her husband brought a guest into their home — a landowner named Pavel Konstantinovich Alekhin. Anna Alexeyevna immediately felt a kindred spirit in him...
Stepan Stepanovich fumbles in the engine of his car. A sociable little girl with a doll in her hands talks to him, and he learns from the girl that some kind of drama is going on in her house, because mom and dad urgently sent their daughter for a walk because a mysterious uncle in a white raincoat...
