The main plot describes financial and political machinations carried out by a group of swindlers among Russian emigrants. Against this backdrop, the fates of people forced to live outside their homeland play out—their hopes, illusions, and suffering.
“One among the refugees might have come to terms with property losses, but there’s no way he could accept that his ‘self’ might be thrown out of his life. If there is no ‘me,’ then what is there?”