The richest bride of the South, the beauty Olga Dolokhova, is in love with her brother’s physician. Or maybe she isn’t in love—though she is certainly positively interested in this strange, gloomy man. But her brother has other plans. He has already found a fiancé for his sister from an appropriate circle. Still, playing by rules imposed on her is not Olga’s style. They won’t let her choose her own husband? Then she will make it so that the suitors give her up! Who needs a bride with a ruined reputation? And the unfortunate doctor, of course, won’t refuse her such a small thing!