Young Sonya is wondering about her betrothed before Christmas and sees a vague image in the mirror. You can't make out his face, but one thing is certain: his right eye is hidden by a bandage. Since then, the girl believes that she will only marry a one-eyed man... But Sonya is at a loss - after all, she always liked her cousin, Sergei Voronov. At the first ball in her life, she meets two men with dark bandages on their faces! One is the brilliant naval officer Stanislav Nizhegorodsky, the second is the romantically inclined Baron von Unger. Both are good-looking and both show the girl unambiguous signs of attention. What to do - follow the prediction of fate or listen to the dictates of the heart?