Plot Summary

Anna is a young Jewish woman, is forced to go to St. Petersburg because of the slander. Fyodor was the son of a rich merchant Suhoverkov, a slacker and a poor man. Sasha — passionate about revolutionary ideas of the young man who died betrayed by a double agent Ralovich. Jacob Segal — brother Annushka, cursed family that were baptized in Orthodoxy. The way these people suddenly intersect when Ralovich on the instructions of the head of the secret police sent to the province in the guise of a monk to incite the common people to pogroms.