Retired professor Serebryakov and his young wife Yeléna disrupt the lives of his brother-in-law Vanya and daughter Sofya on a rural estate, leading to a crisis of unrequited love, resentment, and disillusionment.

驿站长（尼古拉·帕斯图霍夫 Nikolai Pastukhov 饰）是一个心地非常善良的老头子，每一天，驿站长都要接待很多来投奔他的人，不仅要照顾他们的吃喝，有时候还要充当心灵导师的角色，甚至有时候还要成为有些人泄愤的无辜靶子。一天，一位名叫明斯基（尼基塔·米哈尔科夫 Nikita Mikhalkov 饰）的上尉抵达了驿站，在准备离开之时竟然晕倒了，驿站长的女儿冬妮娅（Valentina Ananyina 饰）照料着失去了知觉的明斯基，在她的精心照顾之下，明斯基苏醒了。
明斯基答应驿站长将冬妮娅捎到不远处的教堂做礼拜，然而冬妮娅却一去不回，直到这时驿站长才反应过来，自己的宝贝女儿给这个坏男人给骗走了。

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?