"With your wealth, I'll be an excellent father to your children," are the words of the unscrupulous doctor Saitski, who starts blackmailing Lavski, while at the same time he makes love to his wife. Ilarion Lavski, an eccentric millionaire, in the sixth decade of his life, in the dawn of the communist revolution, meets a young and ambitious journalist in unusual circumstances; he finds her unconscious in the park near his villa. Thrilled by her beauty he offers her a job as his personal secretary and assistant with an intention to keep her by his side. The affection that is born in her towards her employer even more nourishes his wish to tie her to himself, he manages in this in exile, after they leave the country in a hurry the day before the bloody communist revolution.