“You were acting?…Never act again please.”
St. Petersburg,1905. Anton Chekhov’s grieving widow arrives at a rehearsal room and is joined by two actors – an art-loving son of a wealthy family, and a poor girl drawn to new rhetoric. Their passion, performances, and politics stir up a whirlwind of contradictions and memories amidst sex, love, and humorous self-loathing, as they wait for the unknown Russia to come.