At first glance, Sophia Stanislavovna Pilyavskaya (1911-2000), a wonderful actress and dazzlingly beautiful woman, had a happy fate. Very young, she ascended the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, her teachers were K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, she was loved by O. L. Knipper-Chekhova and the Bulgakov family. The public admired her talent, the government awarded orders and titles. Her students became prominent actors. She acted in films little, but the audience remembers her from the films "Conspiracy of the Doomed," "Everything Remains to People" and "Pokrovsky Gate." However, this brilliant life had its underside: depressing, carefully concealed poverty; the arrest of his father in the terrible 37th; the death of a beloved brother and sister in war; a series of deaths - husband, mom, friends, colleagues... And then new times came to get used to. But she did not know how to adapt...