In the apartment of a new residential building, lonely telephone operator Dina Fedorovna is bored. Friends decide to introduce her to Viktor Petrovich, a lonely pharmacist.

An engineer living in a hotel room is visited by a local unsuccessful artist, the author of a painting that has been hanging on the wall of this room for many years. Once he gave it to his beloved woman, the director of the hotel. The meeting between the two men ended with the latter’s firm intention to paint the main picture of his life.

“Russian Woe” is a musical adaptation of the classic Russian comedy “Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov. This tribute to a text well known to all Russians is full of humor and irony. All roles are played by young actors, shedding light on the political context of the time. The adaptation focuses on the social protests and romanticism of Griboyedov's time, satirizing post-Napoleonic Moscow society.