About the fate of composer Sarsky, who appropriated someone else's music and paid for it. The story of good and evil, love and hate. "Free submission to your fate, not the shameful struggle against it, is inherent in animals" - these words of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius became the life credo of the composer. Observing this questionable wisdom soon leads to the compatibility of genius and criminal. Love breeds misery, the doctor turns into a executioner, the temples are destroyed, God is turned away. However, this is changing with the advent of a young medical practitioner who refuses to obey in a slavish way ...