Anna was promised to Ivan since childhood. But her father dies, and now she can decide for herself whether to marry her childhood friend. And then Ivan goes to a terrible war. Anna made a promise to wait for her groom, but years pass and her beloved does not return. And the girl has to make a choice: remain true to her word or, succumbing to the temptations of social life, go headlong into the whirlpool of relationships. Literary adaptation by Ekaterina Polyanskaya.