It's hard when you have no one to rely on. When the loving mother died, and the father does not think about his own daughters, but about his new young wife. And the stepmother, it is known, will not love her stepdaughters. When her husband died, she destined Nellie for a monastery, and Alena for marriage. But the sisters would happily change! Alena doesn’t want to get married in any way, and the very thought of marriage is disgusting to her. Nellie sees her death in the monastery, for her dream is a family hearth. And the sisters would never have seen happiness in life, but fate decreed otherwise...