The young futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovskiy meets a married couple, Lilya and Osip Brik. He reads them his poem "A Cloud in Trousers", Lilya and Osip immediately and forever fall in love with Mayakovskiy's poetry, realizing that they have an extraordinary talent, a poetic genius. And Vladimir falls in love with Lilya, also immediately and forever... The complex and contradictory relationships of this "triangle", filled with happy moments of love and the joy of creativity, then with acutely dramatic turns of events and mental anguish, will ultimately lead to a tragic ending - the poet's suicide.
