Eight years have passed. It's 2001. Those who ordered the attack on Andrei Khodza and his son were killed long ago. According to Daria, who committed retribution, the direct perpetrator is also dead. But quite unexpectedly, Andrei's daughter Erica finds out that the father of her friend and classmate Vlad Shibaev, a mineral water merchant, is the same killer. He faked his death in a fire and changed his name. Fearing that the past will come out, Roman Shibaev categorically forbids his son to communicate with his beloved girl. Erica decides to act on her own without telling her mother anything. She throws the terrible truth in Vlad's face. In fact, his father’s name is Valentin Vashedsky, and he is a mercenary who took Erica’s dad and brother away...