Tanya Lotosova’s younger sister Dina stands out not only for her unusual beauty, but for her pride, strength, and boldness. Her husband believes that this girl, whom he recklessly married out of passion, has almost bewitched him: he senses the fresh and cold smell of bird cherry, which, it seems to him, is the scent of her young body, and with each passing day he understands more clearly that there is and will be no life without Dina and that bird cherry. However, they part: Dina returns from the honeymoon back to Russia, where the Bolsheviks have just taken power, while her husband remains stranded in Berlin, where he signs a contract with one of the émigré theaters.
In ruined and starving Moscow, Dina meets a man who completely subjugates her will…