Why do they take an orphan teenager into a family? Not a baby that you can raise as your own, but almost an adult? To receive money from the state for it? An intelligent and very successful woman, Ekaterina Rodionova did not need money. Having once scorched her soul with the suffering of useless teenagers, she resigned from the post of editor-in-chief of the publishing house, took custody of a twelve-year-old girl and began to raise her along with her own two daughters. Soon the family's life turned into hell. Having survived the tragedy, the embittered girl behaved in such a way that Katya’s husband almost stopped being at home, and Katya herself was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And when, by the will of fate, Katya had to take a boy into the family, the orphans began a war of jealousy. However, in the crucible of this suffering, the family survived so that other families rallied around it, ready to help orphans and adopt teenagers from the orphanage...