Three years after the death of her husband, Zhenya still failed to gain a taste for life. She raises her son, endures the whims of her mother, and struggles at work in the personnel department of a porcelain factory. Evgeny Khalturin, a capital crisis manager, arrives to launch the bankruptcy procedure for the plant. The young, ambitious and active boss irritates Zhenya, and she expresses a negative opinion about the upcoming bankruptcy... Khalturin begins to reflect on the words of the nondescript personnel officer, realizing that he definitely wants to make her his ally. But why? Zhenya is strikingly different from those confident, elegant, social women who attract him...