In a tiny village everybody knows each other. The elderly shepherd Vasilich devotes all his time to the cow Konfeta, looking at it like a child at a sweet. The lonely old woman Zina curses the government. Some married women zealously eye each others’ husbands. Local inventor Ivan entertains the children with clever bits. One day some terrible news arrives...
What if, one day, you make a mistake that changes your entire life, yours and that of your relatives? What are you prepared to do to protect them? Would you be prepared to take the consequences? That day, the wife of the police officer major Sergey Sobolev is about to give birth. Crazy with joy, he rushes to the maternity house, but hits a boy on a pedestrian crossing...
Two chance acquaintances learn that their spouses are lovers. This discovery drives them to act in a way they would not have dared before. Jealousy or passion, revenge or forgiveness… The protagonists look for something to build a new life on, but it is a difficult challenge. They are controlled by the logic of betrayal.
She is from Sevastopol. He is from an Uzbek kishlak and has two wives. She runs with her children from the war and finds refuge in his house. She becomes his third wife and gives birth to his son. She does not know that her husband, a lieutenant of the Black Sea Fleet, is alive.
