In a small, thriving New England town, everything is on display. Residents are emphatically concerned about external decency, and everyone carefully monitors who dresses how and who they meet with. Emma Thomas tries to be invisible, dreams that no one will pay attention to her. She wears long sleeves so that no one can see the signs of severe beatings. Emma's main concern is that no one knows how far from ideal her daily life is. The girl is terribly afraid that the secret she is desperately trying to hide will become known to the residents of her town. And suddenly, unexpectedly for herself, Emma meets love and, realizing this, dares to take a deep breath for the first time in her life. Having done this, she understands that to love means to live. For the first time in Russian!