60-year-old businessman Pyotr Gavrilovich Kuznetsov is a handsome man in the prime of life. He is not used to denying himself pleasures and bathes in luxury, having fun with his young mistress. But suddenly everything changes: a terrible illness takes away his former strength, and his life collapses before his eyes. His son, with whom Pyotr Gavrilovich has not communicated for many years, is in no hurry to help, and the woman, who was recently burning with passion, runs away from him without a second thought...