Due to her mother's illness, Lera Vologdina quits her graduate studies and starts doing business. At first she becomes an ordinary shuttle worker, but soon her originality and talent help her achieve success in serious entrepreneurship. And then Lera understands that the main problems of the “self-made woman” are not related to customs or bandits. Her character is changing, and these changes do not please her. And what is there to be happy about? Her husband leaves her, she almost loses her child, and then feels that she has lost interest in life. Is there a way out of the impasse into which this strong woman has driven herself?