The Empty Home

Ascel lives in Kirghizia. Her future husband Sultan has the best house in ail. After a poor home where she lived with her father, local drunkard, Ascel takes Sultan’s cottage as a palace. She doesn’t love Sultan, but she wants a better life. Marat loves Ascel who is expecting his child. Just after the wedding Ascel leaves for Moscow to have an abortion. She lodges in a bedroom community "Shanghai" where gasterbeiters live. Masha introduces Ascel to a French lady Virginie, who came to Russia to adopt a child. Ascel becomes a housemaid and then a lover of a rich man Arkadiy. One day Marat appears. There goes a bloody fight between two men. Marat is taken to prison. Ascel calls Virginie who lives in her own mansion in French province...