Biographical TV series, based on the memories of the poet Anna Akhmatova. The basis of this film is Akhmatova's unfinished play: "Prologue, or A Dream in a Dream". The film shows how the wheel of history inexorably runs through the lives of the best representatives of the Silver Age: the one who was crushed, the one whose back was broken, or simply collapsed or was painfully beaten. Of the careful organization of society or the private life of man, what is more important?