Native people who have long disappeared in the darkness of time influence us much more than we think. True, thirty-year-old Alesya does not have time to think about such abstract things. She comes to Moscow from a town in Polissya, works as a nurse in a hospital, she barely has enough strength to support her family at home. But the past comes through in Alesya's character, and therefore in every act. Even the choice of profession is not accidental - her great-grandmother Veronica became a nurse during the First World War. Young Veronica was characterized by clarity of mind and life rules. They determined the main choice that she made in her life, full of dangers, marked by great love. Alesya also faces a tough choice in the bright, harsh and stunning opportunities of modern Moscow.