To please his father, Andrei will wait one year before marrying Natasha. Her family's finance are not good, so Nikolai must marry Julie, a rich girl, by demand of his parents. However, he loves Sonya and it is Boris who got to marry that girl. He also joined the Mason. Then, Natasha came to see Andrei's family, but she was not well welcomed. So, she easily fell in love with Anatole and tried to escape with him, but Pierre stopped him.