A traveling carriage is traveling along the road in the vicinity of Pyatigorsk. It features Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, who was exiled from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus for a duel with the captain.

A drunken Cossack Ermolov breaks into the restaurant and kills the waitress. Grushnitsky manages to disarm him. Walking along the grape alley, Pechorin meets his old friend...