This story is about the unusual friendship of a father-in-law and daughter-in-law. Events take place in a Tatar village. Summer 1949. Old man Shengerey decided to marry his son because he can no longer care for his sick wife. The son agrees, he has a fiancee. The girl’s mother did not agree to give up her daughter, and even insulted the old man. Shengerey found another girl, a beauty from the neighboring village of Saidu, and persuaded his son to marry her. They revered the nikah, and... the young people began to understand that they had made a serious mistake: he was marrying in revenge, she was marrying a man about whom she actually knew nothing... There is a second theme in the story. Bigamy. What is it like?