Koshchei—eternally young and impeccably dressed—has been racking his brains for three hundred years about why he can’t manage to find himself a fiancée. He has tried every customary method: he has frightened, kidnapped, and turned princesses into frogs, but none of these “gestures of attention” have produced any results for the prince of darkness.
Meanwhile, the beautiful warrior maiden Varvara, day after day, fends off suitors on the arena—men who don’t want her herself, but rather her rich dowry.
And then King Gorokh, having obtained Koshchei’s needle, decides that now he knows how to get to Varvara. He only overlooks the main thing: even if Koshchei’s death is hidden in the needle, in his heart love can still awaken…