Konstantin was a young lad with artistic talent. He plays the piano well and has a talent for writing.
His father died early and his mother Irina was an actress at the Imperial Theatre in Moscow. Irina indulges in pleasure and spends all her energy and money on dressing up and socializing celebrities.
She had no time to take care of her son, nor did she understand the heart of her son Constantine, and she repeatedly denigrated his works and abilities, and she was even more reluctant to invest money in Constantine.
Every summer, Irina returns to her brother Thorin's farm in the countryside to escape the summer, and this year, she brings back her boyfriend Boris with her.
Boris was a writer who was intelligent and humble, and had already made a name for himself before he was forty years old. Irina, like many of the women around him, was fascinated by him and made him her own king.
Constantine did not have much affection for the man his mother had in mind. As soon as Boris arrived at the manor, he had an ambiguous relationship with his favorite girl, Nina.
Nina admired Boris's status and fame, and she was no longer satisfied with being the heroine of Constantine, and she wanted to leave the country and perform in the Russian Grand Theater.
The mother and lover were at the same time fascinated by a man whom Constantine hated, and he almost broke down.
Martha, 28, is the daughter of Shamrayev and Polina, the housekeepers of Thorin Manor. When Constantine was young, she had feelings for him, but after so many years, she never got any attention from him.
Medvedenko, an elementary school teacher, has been pursuing Martha and staying by her side. Martha was sad and depressed, and spent all her days with tobacco and alcohol, rejecting all his love for her.
Polina watched her daughter suffer in pain, she was also sad and sad, but she did not endure the emotional torture of more than ten years. She carried her husband, Shamlayev, on her back, and the manor's family doctor, Dorn, had been meeting privately.
Shamrayev discovers their adultery, and the two quarrel, and Polina wants Doln to take her away, but he refuses. It turned out that she was just a concoction in Dorn's lonely life.
Constantine wandered all day in the forest outside the manor, shooting seagulls until one day he could no longer bear Nina's indifference to him, and aimed the muzzle of his shotgun at his head.
Irina slowly became aware of Boris's ambiguous relationship with Nina, and she decided to pack her bags as soon as possible and take Boris back to Russia.
Constantine came alive, but Nina secretly followed Boris to Russia. They had a child, but it wasn't long before the child died. Unable to bear the torment of poverty, Boris abandoned her and returned to Irina again.
Martha decides to renounce her love for Constantine and marry Medvedenko, but after she gives birth to the child, she abandons their father and son and, as before, continues to live at the Sorin Manor, just to stay by Konstantin's side.
Constantine slowly walked out of the pain of Nina's departure, studied drama with his heart, and finally achieved something in literary creation.
Although the owner of the manor, Thorin, has a family of many people, he has not lived as he expected in his life. He wanted to be a writer, but he became a politician, he wanted to marry and have children, but he was lonely all his life, he wanted to retire in the city, but now he was about to die in the countryside.
Before his death, the housekeeper Shamrayev summoned his sister Irina from Russia. Boris also returned to Sorin Manor with Irina.
Constantine learns that Boris and Nina have broken up and has made several trips to the Imperial Theatre in the hope of restoring their previous relationship with Nina, but she refuses.
The night Boris returned to the manor, Nina knocked on Constantine's door. Although after a year, the two people have long been human. Nina's face was full of frost, and she was no longer the rich lady she once was. She went on stage at the Imperial Theatre, but she was no longer noble.
Constantine's status as a writer did not allow him to regain Nina's love, Nina was abandoned by Boris, but always looked forward to his return, she did not live the life she envisioned, but still became an actress.
The sound of shotguns came from the manor again, and Irina's heart trembled, and everything she feared had happened. Boris's arrival ultimately cost her son his life.