Paris, 1847. Anna does not notice the signs of the approaching bloody revolution of 1848, she only wants to find out who her real parents are, why she is being pursued by a disgusting red-haired beggar with a disfigured face and why her adoptive father, Monsieur Karl, is so afraid of a child's shoe that an ominous tramp threw on their doorstep at home?..Russia, our days. Polina lives with her disgusted husband and feels that her life has shrunk to the size of their apartment - she hardly leaves the house and communicates with her only friend via the Internet. But after an attack on her husband, she decides to take fate into her own hands and go to work. The first client is the unpleasant red-haired Peter with a face disfigured by a scar. He insists that Polina go to Paris to fulfill his order...