Margarita Spasskaya was seventy-something. She believed that she had experienced enough troubles and hardships, there was nothing to be afraid of, and she lived out her life calmly. But it so happened that the large, friendly family of her only son Gleb was slaughtered, not even sparing the young grandchildren. Have the ghosts of the past burst into the present life of Margarita Nazarovna like a tornado? And the terrible events - the vendetta of the descendants of Vasily Shestryuk, with whom her family had been at enmity since the twenties? In those troubled times, Margarita’s mother, a beautiful noblewoman, mutilated the Red Army soldier Vasily Shestryuk, who participated in the execution of her family and tried to dishonor the miraculously surviving girl. Subsequently, the fates of the villain and the victim were closely intertwined, giving rise to new tragedies. Gleb's faithful friend and colleague, security captain Sergei Labutin, comes to Margarita's aid...