..Provincial nobleman Pyotr Bronin is mired in gambling debts, his estate is mortgaged. The only way to improve things is to profitably marry off their daughters: Katenka and Salome.
Quiet Katya is ready to submit to the will of her father. But the eccentric Salome thinks quite differently: “I don’t agree to be traded like a slave. And I will not allow me to be bought as a thing. I want to drive these stupid men crazy. I want them to crawl before me on their knees, offering their riches for a minute of pleasure. They themselves will bring their empty heads to me on a platter ... "