A bitter story about tender love and its cruel betrayal set in Russia of the 19th century.

Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play "Dowry-less" by A. Ostrovsky. Noble but poor widow seeks to arrange marriage for her three daughters. She maintains "open house" or provincial form of salon hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry for love to a dowry-less.—Anonymous

Harita Ignatievna Ogudalova is a noblewoman of a good and respected family name, a widow with three adult daughters. Everyday after the death of her husband, Dmitriy Stepanovich, she does everything to arrange the life of her daughters (that is, to marry them to sufficiently rich and noble grooms). In the absence of funds, she keeps an open house, hoping that a society of beautiful and musical young ladies will attract single men rich enough to marry loveless women.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)