A road carriage is driving along the road in the vicinity of Pyatigorsk. In it is Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin, exiled from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus for a duel with Captain Rokotov.
A drunken Cossack Ermolov bursts into the restaurant and kills the waitress. Grushnitsky manages to disarm him. Walking along the grape alley, Pechorin meets his old love - Vera.
At an evening at the Ligovskys', Pechorin arranges a meeting with Vera. The princess reproaches him for not paying attention to himself and decides to make him jealous by flirting with other gentlemen.
Pechorin and Maxim Maksimych come to the local prince for a holiday. The robber Kazbich also turns out to be there. At the holiday, Pechorin notices the prince's daughter, Bela
