A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.

Leonid Semyonovich Filimonov
Lida
Elena Fedorovna
Yaroslav Stepanovich
Evgenia Danilovna Surova
Aleksey Yakimovich
Myasoyedov
Odinkov
Luysya
Semyon Filimonov
Leonid's mother
Sasha