Summary
In the late nineteenth century, in the month of May in Russia, the property was inherited by  Lyubov Andreyevna, who had just returned from Paris after five years of absence. With his brother and some friends and family, it contemplates the delicate cherry blossoms of the many property waving gently in the breeze, thinking of the past. Nothing seems to have changed since the golden age of his childhood. Yet nothing is as before.

Lyubov has squandered his inheritance in favor of a French lover and the property does not report as much income as at the time of his parents. Blinded by nostalgia, the brother and sister, yet refuse to adapt their beloved cherry orchard to the new constraints, emerging of the modern Russia .