Kakiye strannyye shtuki inoy raz ustraivayet zhizn'! Zhurnalist Rodion Shakhrin, sobirayas' v otpusk na grecheskiy ostrov Korfu, dazhe predpolozhit' ne mog, v kakoy popadet pereplet! Vnezapnaya i, pokhozhe, beznadezhnaya lyubov' vynuzhdayet zakorenelogo kholostyaka postupit'sya svoimi printsipami No stoit li igra svech?