Nikolai Makushenko

The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversation, Mariya breaks the pimp's head, ends up in the police station, from where she escapes. Now bandits and the police are looking for her, and she urgently needs to find money to buy a passport and leave the city with her daughter.

Having fallen in love while still at school, they got married and now have a happy and prosperous family with a young son. One day, Stepan witnesses a robbery. Among the hooligans is a girl who tries to stop them. After subduing the men, he frees her. From then on, this unexpected love becomes a torment for him, his wife Natalia, and his young son Vasya, who tries to protect his mother from misfortune.