The singer intends to stage Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades in the opera where she once made her debut.

Andrei, who is Lisa's boyfriend and singer of the same opera troupe, also dreams of fame and money, but he does not get any role in the new production.

He learns that Sophia is a gambler, and has lost almost all of her fortune and even mortgaged her house in Paris.

Shortly before the premiere, Sofia cashes her last check secretly from Oleg and for some reason meets David.

During the break, Andrei tells Sofia in the dressing room about his loss and asks her to help him, but she says that she no longer has money.

Since now he is in David's slavery, he is taken to the basement, where people place bets on the lethal game of Russian roulette.

David gives the money which he earned on bets to the unexpectedly materialised Sofia, who then leaves in her white car.

Andrei recalls that long ago in his childhood he heard Sofia's voice on the radio and starts to understand that he began to belong to her even then.