Leonid loved Margarita. He loved him very much - and it seemed that his heart would stop from this passion. And she... immediately after school jumped out to marry someone else. Out of sadness, Leonid married a classmate. And then Rita realized that all her life she had loved only her Lenechka... The romance flared up with renewed vigor. There was no concern for the abandoned spouses, for their suffering. However, when his wife died, Leonid realized that this could no longer continue. But he was still drawn to Rita... As if sentenced to each other, these two suffered for more than twenty years. How should such a story end? What is the outcome of the protracted drama: wedding, separation forever, former rare meetings in secret? Fate decided otherwise - and no one, of course, expected such a situation...