Two people. Two stories. Two lifes. They are separated by half a century, but the threads of their destinies eventually twist into one complex ball. A young teacher in search of his place in life and a seasoned playboy, whose life is inexorably heading towards sunset... Providence brings them together in a small town near Moscow, where the first is literally exiled from his native department, and the second comes to die. In a town where strange people live with their strange secrets; where there is a network of strange caves, from which you can emerge young and healthy, or you may not emerge at all; where one finds love and the other finds life. But it turns out that they now have one life and a woman for two.