Agrafena Petrovna volkonskaya, the widow of the former soviet port director in Rostov, comes to Moscow after the soviet union's collapse. She carries with her a trunk full of dollars that she inherited from her late husband. Agrafena dreams to be accepted into the high society of Moscow. She brings along a countrywoman, Tractarina Farsynkina, whom she hired as a lady of honours, but uses as a general household helper. However, since Moscow's high society snubs her, Agrafena hires the famous director and acting coach, Dorotea Arsyengievich Tarkovskaya, to teach her "native Moscow ways."
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