Sociologists know that envy is the most powerful human emotion. But Lyuba Malanina knows this not from sociological research, but from her own life. Well, how can she not envy everyone and everything? The friends with whom she grew up in the same yard on Malaya Bronnaya look down on Lyuba. The man with whom she has been in love since childhood treats her with offensive patronage. To come to terms with the fact that her whole life will be spent on the sidelines, as her mother came to terms with this? But envy pushes Lyuba to a completely different decision: to completely change her life. And she succeeds! All that remains is to wait for happiness...