Ольга Цинк

Despite her parents' ban, 20-year-old Faina Feldman is going to conquer theatrical Moscow. The capital greets her with hostility, but Faina doesn't care much, especially since real friends and mentors appear in her life who teach, help, and patronize. Every minor success is followed by a serious life drama. Revolution, then war... and each time there is a serious struggle for life, which is based on fragile hope, a great love for the theater and absolute faith in one's own destiny.

The heroine learns about the death of her husband, who is dying in the bed of his young mistress. The heroine seems to be going crazy. Having found a estranged girlfriend with her brother, she is ready to do anything to understand why her husband chose not a wife, but a 21-year-old girl who came from the village. At the end of the picture, she herself finds herself one step away from death.