Pavel, the father of a young violinist, has had to obey his mother’s domineering temperament since the earliest childhood. He drifts with the current, believing that his life didn’t turn out—he doesn’t deserve love and respect because he can’t change anything in his life. And it’s all because he is weak and lacks character. He is closed and not talkative. He silently tolerates his wife’s infidelity, whom he married on his mother’s orders. He didn’t become an architect, as he dreamed of from childhood. He doesn’t like his job teaching solfeggio, and as for becoming a great pianist—his mother wanted that for him, but it didn’t happen due to lack of talent. The only joy and love in his life is his daughter Dasha.
When Pavel learns that Dasha is between life and death, he decides—for the first time in his life—to take action. An action that maybe he has been moving toward his entire life, consciously.