"With your wealth, I'll be an excellent father to your children," are the words of the unscrupulous doctor Saitski, who starts blackmailing Lavski, while at the same time he makes love to his wife.
If you wish for a book to make your heart beat faster
If you wish for a mind blowing adventure
If you wish to learn what true love is
And why we would all do everything for someone we love…
Then AGONY is the book for you
Ilarion Lavski, an eccentric millionaire, in the sixth decade of his life, in the dawn of the communist revolution, meets a young and ambitious journalist in unusual circumstances; he finds her unconscious in the park near his villa. Thrilled by her beauty he offers her a job as his personal secretary and assistant with an intention to keep her by his side.
Accepting the job offered, Rakita Rodenska tries to forget the unsuccessful affair with doctor Saitski.
The affection that is born in her towards her employer even more nourishes his wish to tie her to himself, he manages in this in exile, after they leave the country in a hurry the day before the bloody communist revolution.
Their children are born abroad. Two twins. Their happiness is blurred when they find out that one of them is ill with epilepsy and neural muscular atrophy. Different from Emmanuel, the sick twin, the other son, Venjamin, shows intelligence above the average.
The long years of expatriate life are finished with the collapse of the communist system, after the sudden death of the communist dictator.
The family decides to come back to the fatherland. The father and the son prodigy leave as advance.
Not long after their return to the old family house, they are visited by their relative, Solomon Pavski, theatrical director and actor. By the way, Pavski discovers that Ilarion Lavski is the author of the text he had been preparing for a theater play. On his way home he forgets his book.
Tomorrow, on his way to the airport to get his family, Lavski goes to Pavski to return his book. He does not find him home, but he is met by his wife, Alexandra Pavski. In her, Ilarion Lavski recognizes his ex girl friend from the far away youth, and recognizes the awful truth, that he had married his own granddaughter, the child of his daughter from his relationship with Alexandra Pavski. Namely, Alexandra Pavski leaves him while pregnant and leaves abroad.
The momentary thought to kill Alexandra Pavski is disturbed by the appearance of her guests.
Broken by the size of the tragedy he drifts off the road in his car and hits a tree. He takes his hurt wife to hospital, and his sick son home.
And while he considers the steps he should take to keep his family from destruction, his daughter (who still does not know he is her father) comes to his house.
He still manages to kill the old woman, but not to hide the hideous truth. "With your wealth, I'll be an excellent father to your children," are the words of the unscrupulous doctor Saitski, who starts blackmailing Lavski, while at the same time he makes love to his wife.