The sea of ​ ​ everyday life is in the artist's view the reality surrounding him, in which, like countless streams and streams originating in different social strata of society, human destinies gather. Salome is a famous bestseller, the pinnacle of the work of A.F. Veltman, a talented and original writer, contemporary and friend of A.S. Pushkin. In the center of the story is the fate of the beautiful Salome, who, having learned that her parents read her into the grooms of a rich old man, decides to find a husband for herself.