The 50-year-old theater critic Iliev has achieved an enviable social position. A young actress from a provincial theater is his mistress. It is more profitable for Iliev to hide his relationship with the actress from his wife while she is in the countryside. He used his influence to keep the actress in the provincial theater. But during another trip to the provincial theater, things happen to him that contradict his belief in his own infallibility.—Georgi Djulgerov