The story of the flood that eroded the shores of Petersburg in 1824 is sad.

Peter the Great, embodied in the Bronze Horseman, looks at the disaster threateningly and silently: what is his flow, the temporary riot of the waves, when he has already once and for all suppressed the water element, having encircled the banks in the stone grasp of the city of Petersburg?

However, the fact that for the Bronze Horseman, who is in the "unshakable height", is an insignificant event, a misfortune for ordinary people; Floods cause a lot of trouble for small people, for numerous residents of St. Petersburg, but for someone it can become a tragedy.

So, going beyond the banks, the Neva takes the life of Parasha's girl. Inconspicuous for the rest of the world, the loss is intolerable for the one who loved her - an impoverished nobleman, a modest employee of Eugene. "His Parasha, his dream" is no longer with him, and not born with grief, Eugene loses his mind.

One day, albeit briefly, the mind and clarity of consciousness return to Eugene to crystallize into a terrible question: who is to blame for his misfortune, in the death of a loved one, in a personal grief that has become unbearable torment?

Who!