Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is currently spending in his dacha with his wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia as well as family members and friends. Things vary dramatically out of Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with pianistic bravura and his games. But Kotov isn't fooled: This really is the period of Stalin's repression, with calls at the midst of the night time punctuation doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...