The four-part television play based on the novel by Dostoyevsky has a small governor's town in Russia as its main location. In the mid-seventies of the 19th century, the landlady Varvara Stavrogina and Professor Stepan Verkhovensky are the social focus. Warwara's son Nicolai and the professor's son Pyotr are in Geneva. There Nicolai becomes engaged to the beautiful Lisa Tuschina. But he should already be married ...
