The film is composed of: Nothing to Do, Nerves, Avenger, Proposal based on stories by Anton Chekhov. Nothing to Do: short stories about a bored lady who has an affair with a romantic boy - tutor of her children. Nerves: After hearing horror stories about all kinds of mystical phenomena, Vaksin can not fall asleep for a long time. In the morning, the wife finds him asleep on a governess's chest. Avenger: A loving husband, having found his wife in the arms of her lover, decides to kill her. In preparation for the assassination the hero begins to think about the inevitable punishment that follows the crime and drops the idea. Proposal: a tragicomic story about matchmaking of a landowner Lomov to his neighbor Chubukov's daughter.