Katya Vinskaya, a young graduate of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, is entrusted with a very unusual research by her supervisor. Russian billionaire Pavel, living in England, wanted to restore the history of his family, to find out what happened to his grandparents, who perished during the era of Stalinist repressions. Katya is captivated by the search, the dusty pages of archival documents seem to take on flesh and blood. Katya follows with admiration the fate of Sashenka, Pavel’s grandmother, a woman of extraordinary beauty and courage. She truly fell in love once in her life and paid dearly for it. Gradually, Katya begins to understand that this task was not given to her by chance...