During the Russian Civil War, a peasant named Sergei searches for food among corpses in starving Siberia. He meets a mysterious young woman, the Countess Alexandrova, who asks him to pose as her husband. Together, they find an abandoned house, where they're joined by a stranger and Cossacks, who don't believe the woman is a peasant's wife. Sergei is beaten, but he doesn't betray her. They're eventually rescued by White cavalry and taken to the town of Novokursk, where the countess stays with the wealthy Gaidaroff family.
Mockery
In the midst of the Russian Revolution, a peasant with intellectual disabilities forms an unlikely connection with a stunning countess, whose love becomes a consuming force in his life.
