The action of the film “Two Women”, based on Turgenev’s play “A Month in the Country” (1850), takes place in 1859, on the estate of the wealthy landowner Arkady Sergeyevich Islaev. The appearance of the young tutor Alexei Nikolayevich Belyaev, hired for the summer to take care of the education of the son of the house, Kolya Islaev, changes the peaceful course of life on the estate. Aged 10, little Kolya is enthusiastic about his master. But Kolya is not the only one who becomes attached with all his soul to Alexei Belyaev. The latter conquers the heart of the young Verochka, ward of the Islaevs, and even Kolya’s mother, Natalia Petrovna, begins to feel, in the presence of Belyaev, an inexplicable turmoil. As for the leader of this love quartet, he seems at first to feel nothing in particular towards either Verotchka or Natalia Petrovna. In the meantime the two women have become rivals and, devoured sometimes by jealousy, sometimes by remorse, they fight over Alexei Nikolaevich.
