The Beard

Slow life in a small seaside town N is suddenly disturbed by a local scandal around a man who has recently passed away. Only his wife and his friend know where he was buried, and they refuse to tell the others, seemingly in accordance to his last will. Each character seeks answers to the questions of their own, but they are searching on the outside, inquiring society and each other, so their efforts are futile. Something is about to happen.

At the tail end of the 19th century, a young up-and-coming composer and author named Larysa Petrivna Kosach Kvitka decides to take her amateur writing to the next level, and, along with a group of like-minded individuals forms the Pleiada Literary Association and takes on a new name: Lesya Ukrainka.