Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...
as Raisky
as Vera
as Mark Volokhov
as Tatyana Markovna Berezhkova
as Marfinka
as Kritskaya
as Tushin
as Leontiy
as Ulyana
as Saveli
as Marina
as Vikentyev
as Nil Andreyevich
as Yakov
as Vasilisa
as Yegorka
as Pashutka
as Prokhor
as Cadet
as Tit Nikonovich
