The village girl Sasha went to work on a collective farm after completing her seventh year. Got a room. For her good behavior, she was assigned a lecturer from the city, who came to improve the culture of the villagers. Sasha decided to give birth to a child from an intellectual and achieved her goal. In order not to embarrass his fellow villagers, Sasha goes to the city to give birth, having neither a stake nor a yard there. Daughter Tanya took after her father and studied at the institute. But her personal life did not work out. It is unknown from whom Tanya gives birth to a child and dies in childbirth. Sanna Vanna, as Sasha is now called, remains with her granddaughter Alenka, the secret of whose birth haunts her grandmother...