The film begins with a funeral procession passing by, people stop to ask who is being buried. They are told that the coffin belongs to Marya Nikolayevna Zhivago. The coffin is closed, nailed and lowered into the ground, and while the mourners throw dirt on it, a little boy crawls to the top of the mound because he is upset. It doesn't take long for people to realize that the boy is the dead woman's son, he covers his face and bursts into sobs. His uncle, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin (Kolya), comes to take him away. It was very cold and the boy, Yura, was woken up by someone knocking on his window and when he looks outside he sees nothing but snow. Then he begins to fear that his mother will sink deeper into the ground and begins to cry again. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayAfter the death of his mother, Yura, his uncle Kolya and Pavel, the handyman, decide to go to visit Duplyanka, a patron's estate for the second time. They will meet an old friend Ivan Ivanovich Voskoboynikov, who was a teacher and textbook writer, who lives there. Kolya asks Pavel a question that was on his mind at the time about the land and the situation of the peasants while reading Voskoboynikov's manuscript on the land question. Kolya reminds Yura of his mother, so he likes being with him. He is looking forward to seeing Nicky Dudorov, a schoolboy who currently lives in Dupyanka. He goes in search of Nicky while his uncle meets Ivan, but finds himself wandering the gardens and becoming increasingly depressed. He prays and calls his mother, he loses consciousness due to his emotions. He calls his uncle and reminds him that he didn't pray for his missing father, but decides that his father can wait. Years later Yury becomes a medical officer in the Red Army and is sent to a small town. It is there that he meets Lara, a woman he has only seen twice in his life. Their first meeting occurs when he visits the house of a woman who has tried to kill herself and sees Lara, the woman's daughter, at that moment they do nothing but exchange glances, Komarovsky. Their second meeting occurred when Lara attempted to kill Komarovsky at a party but instead injured a court prosecutor. Lara is then married to Pasha, a missing young soldier, and has come west to find him. He had a daughter, Katya, whom he had to decide to leave in his hometown, Yuryatin. Yury is taken away by Lara, but decides to return to his wife and son in Moscow. Yury soon discovers that times are very difficult from before, to the point that he struggles to find food and firewood. Yury decides to move his family east to Varyniko, where an estate that was once owned by his wife's grandfather is located. The journey has its ups and downs, eventually they arrive at the estate and once there they find plenty of food and wood. Yury decides to venture into the nearest town, to use the library. There, he will be surprised once again by Lara. They started having an affair which lasts two months when Yury decides to cut off contact and confess everything to his wife about having an affair. However, during the journey he is captured by the partisan army, who enlists him as a medical officer and is told that he will be shot if he tries to escape. He is forced to remain in the army until the end of the war between the tsarist Whites and the communist Reds. Once the war was over, he was released and soon returned to Yuryatin to find Lara. The two end up spending several months together. All is well until Lara's ex-husband Pasha has become a leader in the Urals but is now wanted, so she and Yury must hide to avoid being killed. Komarovsky returns and takes them with him to the east to avoid being found..