The story begins in an innocent way. Emily and Oliver - a married couple of intellectuals, once wealthy due to financial difficulties move from the capital to a poor neighborhood of a provincial town. One evening they meet their neighbors Alan and Dawn Oplawskaya) - a married couple from the neighborhood, who are all different from them. And then, as in any excellent play and as in any real life, the meeting of four remarkable characters sets in motion a whole avalanche of hard-to-predict events, in which they all ultimately lose to their weaknesses...