A Month in the Country chronicles the comic and erotic turmoil that befalls an otherwise quiet country estate when a handsome young tutor arrives to teach Natalya Petrovna's young son. But it is Natalya who becomes interested in a tutelage of another kind, much to the consternation of her husband and her suffering friend, Rakitin, who is secretly smitten with her.
A Month in the Country chronicles the comic and erotic turmoil that befalls an otherwise quiet country estate when a handsome young tutor arrives to teach Natalya Petrovna's young son. But it is Natalya who becomes interested in a tutelage of another kind, much to the consternation of her husband and her suffering friend, Rakitin, who is secretly smitten with her.