Vera moved from the northern capital to a small provincial town, where she got a job as a literature teacher at a local school. On the very first working day, she has a conflict with her student Dasha. Vera, hiding that her husband Stepan is in prison, communicates only with her classmate Zoya, who invited her to this city. The heroine of the series tries to isolate herself from the whole world, but when her life confronts the problems of Dasha and her cousin Nastya, who remained in the care of Eugene after the death of her parents, she decides to help the girls. Suddenly Stepan comes to the city ...