The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, followed by translator and direct Eugenia, is travel through Italy researching the life span of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he also meets with the Domenico, who years earlier had his own family in his house for a long time to save them. Seeing some truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes interested in him. In a collection of dreams, the poet nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his own sense of kinship with Domenico eventually become intertwined.