A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
as Peredonov
as Varvara
as Lyudmila
as Volodin
as Khripach
as Rutilov
as Daria
as Valeriya
as Vershina
as Yershikha
as Kokovkina
as Doctor
as Cherepnin
