One bitterly cold winter in the 1970s, Leonid Tsypkin's obsession with
Dostoyevsky leads him to Leningrad by train, so that he can see for himself
where his hero died. As the train makes its way across Russia, a journal
inspires Tsypkin to conjure up the summer of 1867, when Dosteyevsky and his
young wife Anna travelled across Europe to Baden-Baden. The destructive
demons that beset Dostoyevsky in his later life were in full force at this
time, and man and wife battled for their very souls. Yet, in Tsypkin's
hands, this elegy to the great Russian writer becomes a glorious and
unforgettable love story.