Alexey Kuvaev returns to his native land after the army. He finds the deserted house of the woman who raised him as her own son. Alexey believes in new people, it seems to him that he is gaining what he lost a long time ago - a family. But the price for his adult life is a merciless solution to the mystery of the tragic death of his parents. The pain that he has already come to terms with will one day come back into Alexey's life.