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A teacher, Nina Suzhutna, is sought out by a notary in Kyiv and told that she had been bequeathed a house by Marfa Sukhomlyn, a woman she knows nothing about, before her death. In the house of the deceased, Nina finds a diary in which the woman describes her life. Her neighbour, a Soviet army officer, Kyrylo Shulika, got her a job in a sewing workshop. "The Red Seamstress was a front for a brothel. Shulika beats Marfa and forces her to go to the officers' "fitting rooms". He mocks her in an exquisite way - he feeds her oranges and then rapes her. And he sends her young son to an orphanage. Marfa cannot stand the abuse and burns down the atelier. She is sentenced to ten years in prison, and two more are added for a fight in the sewing room... Then the pages in the diary are torn out. In order to find out about Marfusha's fate, Nina and her friend Leonid move into the house they inherited. Kyrylo Shulika, a very old general, lives nearby in a three-storey chalet. He is dying of cancer. But he dies for a different reason...

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