钢琴家普拉东（Oleg Basilashvili 奥列格•巴西拉什维利 饰）的妻子开车撞死了人，为了妻子，普拉东甘愿顶罪。在审判前的一个星期，普拉东赶回家见父亲的一面。途中，他经过了一个普通的、喧哗的车站。　　车站餐厅里，普拉东和美丽女服务薇拉（Lyudmila Gurchenko  留德米拉•古尔琴科 饰）相遇了。两人一开始因为普拉东抱怨餐厅的服务而互相结怨，尔后，普拉东和薇拉越聊越投契，普拉东还到了薇拉家作客。两人的爱情之火就在点点滴滴中点燃了，最终步入爱河。　　普拉东入狱了。在难得的家属探视日，薇拉千里迢迢来看普拉东了。两人在监狱外的木屋内度过了难忘的一晚。

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.