The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.

While on a business trip to Leningrad, engineer Sergei Gushchin meets a young woman and quickly falls for her. Acutely aware of the age difference between the two, the man decides against pursing the relationship.

A televised play based on the novella of the same name by Boris Vasilyev.