 Kharita Ignatyevna Ogudalova is a noblewoman from very respected family, a widow with three marriageable daughters.She has become poor after her husband's death, but she is trying to do everything possible to make the lives of her daughters better, which means to help them happily marry rich and noble men.Because of her lack of finances, she keeps her house opened, hoping that the company of her three beautiful music-loving daughters will attract many single and rich men who could marry these girls.