Vitaliy Polusmak

Based on the play by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. A married couple, Korney (Polar Bear), an artist, and his wife, Rita (Black Panther), live in Paris. Korniy's job is to paint for a salon. Their son Lesik is seriously ill. Rita persuades her husband to sell one of his paintings in order to use the money to treat her son. Kornii strongly disagrees. He forces his wife and sick son to pose for a new painting...

The plot is based on real events described by Ivan Franko in a series of criminal reports for the newspaper "Kurjer Lwowski" in 1889. The writer used the motives of these events in the story "The Foundations of Society".