Happy childhood in Tsarist Russia, fleeing abroad after the revolution, working as a typist in a Los Angeles newspaper during the Great Depression - all this fell to the lot of Tatyana Korotich. Her modest, lonely life in a foreign land was completely changed by her acquaintance with the Italian Serano family. Tatyana fell in love with one of the four brothers, but he died tragically. After this, she was overcome by apathy, and she accepted the advances of another Serano brother, Tony. The girl was not even embarrassed that by that time Tony had turned from a respectable car service worker into the right hand of an Italian mafioso. Tanya convinced herself that she herself had nothing to do with his criminal activities, not yet suspecting that if you get involved with the mafia, you will no longer be able to escape...