Based on the diaries and letters of the Narodnik revolutionary Sergei Sinegub.
About the revolutionaries of the 1870s.
A priest’s daughter, wishing to escape her oppressive circumstances, enters into a sham marriage with a Narodnik revolutionary and poet. A youth commune organises their wedding and their move to the city. However, having become husband and wife, the young couple truly fall in love with one another. When he is convicted in the ‘Trial of the 193’, notorious throughout the Russian Empire, and sent to the dreadful penal colony in Karelia, she voluntarily follows him...
