Nastya is seventeen, she is anxious and demanding, and also a future actress. She has a mother, Tonechka, from whom, according to her daughter, nothing came of it. There is also a grandmother who for some reason hates Nastya’s late father, a brilliant writer! What kind of secrets do mother and grandmother have? Tonechka is a loving and beloved wife, daughter and mother. She is also a famous screenwriter and can be next to her director husband always and everywhere. One day they go to a beautiful ancient city. Her husband Alexander must meet with an old friend whom Tonechka does not know. Who is this Kondrat Ermolaev? The husband says he’s a cook, but it looks like he’s a bandit... When her whole life has changed, Tonechka, a business-like, cheerful and cheerful screenwriter, and her adopted son Rodion, a terrible slob and klutz, but also an artist, find themselves together in the lovely city of Dozhdev. One morning this new, not yet fully inhabited, strange world turns upside down - a neighbor, an elderly lady, whom everyone called “the old princess” behind her back, dies...