"Tureens, or boiling passions" - the French sitcom combined with drama and vaudeville.
The plot of the play unfolds among the blessed vineyards of Bordeaux. Although what happens to the heroes of the comedy could happen anywhere and anytime.
The main heroine of the comedy Violet (N. Usatova) is an elderly and very rich aunt, the owner of family vineyards, who are all trying to deceive everyone to take over her estate.
The house is joined by bankrupt relatives who are trying to persuade her to sell the vineyards. Do not sleep and servants, who also want to "snatch a piece" from the state of the hostess. As a result, the house is full of numerous conspiracies, love intrigues, cunning traps and other tricks, because of which the characters now and then fall into comical situations.
And against the backdrop of all this insanity in the cupboard is an old, cracked, but still beautiful porcelain tureen - a symbol of the family inheritance and its mistress, who does not want to put up with the realities of this century.
