A large government official from Moscow, having come to rest at home, falls into a trap organized for him by two sisters working in the former state house. Sincerely falling in love with one of them, he does not suspect that he is becoming the object of blackmail ...
The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...