The plot focuses on an ordinary family living in one village in the taiga. Father works as a driller and mother as a nurse. It would seem that everything is fine with them, but suddenly father begins to drink and draws his wife into it, leaving his son without supervision.
The story of a young teacher Nadezhda Panaeva, who had just left the walls of the pedagogical institute and began her adult life. She dreams of happiness, her beloved husband, her own comfortable house. But her dreams, if destined to come true, then not immediately. Betrayal of a loved one, a...