An old man and a young man stop at a destroyed house. It turns out that they are father and son, and the house once belonged to the old man’s mother, who came from a respectable family. She died during childbirth, and her husband, a scoundrel and a drunkard, was killed, and killed by his son, who appears before us as an old man. He is tormented by memories, the image of his mother appears in the house. He shares all this with the young man and at first does not notice how he is trying to run away with their money. But a fight begins between them and the Old Man kills his son with the same knife with which he once killed his father, completing a certain circle of memories that torment him and stopping in his son what was terrible in his father.