The Symphony turns to be a "cacophony" consisting of faces, gestures and conversation, full of dissonance and hope, grief and tenderness, destruction and fundamental change when "Datschniki", summer guests, meet on a "Datscha" in the Summer of 1904 (Gorki). The impulse for leaving the society in which active social engagement cannot be realized is given by a widow-doctor, she is joined by a wife - suffering from her unfullfilled life of being childless - of an unsrupolous lawyer. A former wealthy factory manager, the brother of the woman and the unmarried sister of the lawyer, who has fled into a world of painting and piano, follow. The women from the other two unhappy marriages stay with their husbands.