The play is a complicated love story. The heroine, Natalia Petrovna, balances in the tedious and full of conventions life between a husband that does not love and a friend in whom he hesitates to succumb erotically. Looking at them he gets charmed by the simplicity of their relations and craves for the plain, natural love. When her repressed feelings awaken and begins to vindicate a third man, without having the purpose to follow him, then he will lose the first one, loyal admirer of hers, and will remain finally with her husband, without loving him, realizing her existential and love void.