1920s. England. Eleanor Hamilton is a happy wife and mother of a charming four-year-old girl, Mabel. Edward Hamilton is a famous psychologist who actively promotes the ideas of eugenics, designed to combat hereditary diseases for the public good. But when Mabel is diagnosed with epilepsy, everything in the family falls apart. Mabel's illness must be hidden, otherwise Edward's life's work will be in jeopardy. Discovering that her husband is withholding important scientific information from her, Eleanor reconsiders her views on genetic inferiority, and her previous faith in her husband's infallibility crumbles. Alarmed, upset, no longer able to put up with the situation, she takes matters into her own hands... For the first time in Russian!