Young girls - four girls - in the 30s of the XX century arrange a suburban theater presentation on the story “Breathing Easy” by Bunin. The author is banned in Soviet Russia and generally is abroad, but ... Why not, if we are talking about youth, life and even death, and not at all about political collisions? However, the name of the writer is not mentioned, and the theater - even as Pushkin remarked - is a conditional phenomenon, and even more so - the theater in the theater.

At first, the play, to which viewers from the city are invited, threatens to get upset because of the absence of the brother of one of the girls. They are trying to assemble a presentation at least from fragments of different stories of the writer. But the return of the missing person is saved by the performance, and it will take place - “Light Breath” ... on the eve of the ordeal.

The stories, excerpts from them, were chosen by the young actresses of "Light Breath" - this is their perception of the world of Bunin, their breath ...