Many of the soldiers are leaving behind distraught wives and families.
After dumping the man's body, he tends to the distraught wife and her children.
The wife distraught, half unconscious, suffered herself to be led back to the long line of carriages with no resistance.
Mikhail asked, laying a warm hand on the shoulder of his distraught wife.
"Don't do that now," he said to his distraught wife.
His distraught wife sat in the courtroom gallery, at times crying during the proceeding.
Finally, he learned that the doctor's distraught wife had died, too, on her way to the hospital.
The next morning, his distraught wife asked where he had been.
He was handing out copies of a poem that his wife, distraught, had written at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Jerry gets into her room, and discovers his distraught wife, pleading to see him.