Alexei wants to marry Natasha but his father insists that he spends a year abroad before marying her to be certain of his "passion" for her. The financial state of the Rostovs is desperate and Nikolai's parents ask him to mary Julie for her money, but he refuses due to his love for Sonia. While Nikolai goes to war, Natasha and her father visit Andrei's family and it does not go quite well. Anatole and his sister both court Natasha and invite her to their soirée. Natasha believes that she and Anatole are in love, she renounces to her engagement with Andrei, therefore Pierre makes Anatole…