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 "Datchniki", summer guests, meet on a "Datcha" in the Summer of 1904. The impulse for leaving the society, which active social engagement cannot be realized in, is given by a widowed doctor, who is joined by a wife - suffering from her unfulfilled life of being childless - of a ruthless 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.