Vadim Vyatkin

Many myths, stories and traditions are associated with the lime tree, going back to the Middle Ages, Celtic times and as far back as Ancient Greece. In Russia, the story goes, that on discovering his lover's infidelity, landowner Pavel Kazantsev was so heartbroken that he could not forgive Anastasia's disloyalty and buried her alive. He planted a lime tree to mark the spot where she lay, and years later villagers still go to the tree to ask Anastasia for help, particularly in affairs of the heart. Marina is the wife of a successful businessman also coincidentally called Pavel Kazantsev. One day, after a family quarrel, Pavel takes Marina to their country house where she discovers that Oleg has a lover - Anastasia. Marina soon learns about the legend of Anastasia's tree from the local villagers. The coincidence with names is disturbing, but a worse discovery is still to come.

The pitfalls of youth sooner or later, but always come out sideways. In a terminally ill woman who finds a successful entrepreneur before her death, he with great difficulty recognizes his old love, whom he left pregnant twenty-four years ago, believing the slanderous denunciations of ill-wishers. The dying woman asks him only for one thing: to take care of her daughter, who is, after all, their child together. But the girl hates her father with all her soul, considering him to be the cause of her mother’s suffering.