The bruises disappear, but the scars and fears remain. In a small, thriving New England town, everything is on display. Residents are emphatically concerned about external decency, and everyone carefully monitors who dresses how and who they meet with. Therefore, Emma Thomas has to make every effort to ensure that no one guesses what terrible things are happening in her home. But then the gloomy page was turned, and it seemed that happiness smiled on the heroine. The girl is now being looked after by smart and caring people. She met her first love. But the shadow of the past darkens Emma's life. Her birth mother returns, and Emma decides to improve her relationship with her. She moves in with her mother, but, to her horror, finds out that her mother is an alcoholic and drug addict, and she also has a young lover, Jonathan, who really liked Emma. Both Jonathan and Emma's mother want the girl to love them. And all their actions once again prove to the girl that to love means to suffer... For the first time in Russian!