On the Eve of Departure

Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.

Aristarkh Petrovich Kuzkin, the manager of a store, finds himself in big trouble. His wife Vera, having discovered a letter from a woman named Sonya addressed to her husband, decides to take revenge by writing to the prosecutor about his fraudulent activities. Despite all attempts to convince Vera that Sonya's letter was nothing more than a joke, Aristarkh Petrovich and his accomplices are unable to avoid arrest...

1920s. The Krestyanskaya Pravda correspondent comes to the village where was an attempt on the young selkor. He learns about the gang of kulak members, led by the deputy chairman of the village council.