They all live in the same house. Our hero, his father-in-law, wife, children, and father-in-law's niece, Blue Stocking. The hero is punished for falling out of love with his wife. He drinks, realizing that he has failed as a person. A widower with many children, her first love, proposes to his wife. Blue Stocking suffers from loneliness. The girl announces that she is pregnant with the Hero's son. The father-in-law is going to sell the house. An actress from a traveling theater, who unceremoniously appeared in the house, is the Hero's mother, who abandoned him in early childhood. But this will only become known after her death, which will change everything and everyone for the better.