Dimitrij Dorn – prepodavatel′, knigi on lyubit bol′she, chem zhenshhin, no odnazhdy zajdya v bukinisticheskuyu lavku, on uvidel trepetnuyu Elizabet. On namnogo starshe ee, no ona srazu soglasilas′ stat′ ego zhenoj. On poselil ee v svoem dome. Ona pechatala ego lekcii, sazhala rozy, pekla krasivye torty, lyubila koshek i babochek, i dazhe, kazhetsya, ego, Dimitriya…I vse bylo by ideal′no, esli by odnazhdy v ich dome ne poyavilsya zagadochnyj, smuglyj krasavec – lyubimyj uchenik Dorna.