1905. The successful breeder Mastakov is happily in love with the colonel's widow. And everything would be fine, but a strange old man with a girl showed up in the neighborhood. And with horror, he recognizes in him the Masters of his former comrade in hard labor. They fled together, but Mastakov was lucky, and the old man was caught, and he served his 12 years. The old man does not need money, he has come for his soul, he wants to vent his anger and envy, to make him suffer...