It all started a hundred years ago with a story that shocked the world. The emperor is executed, there is a coup in the country, the best names, the flower of the nation, are leaving Russia in a hurry. She, the maid of honor of the last empress, cannot save the dying dynasty, but she is obliged to preserve the necklace that keeps the warmth of the hands of the last Romanovs. By a roundabout route, through Turkey and the Balkans, the empress’s diamond clasp will reach Europe to protect those who need care and mercy more than once. And who is protecting whom now - Nastya, the accidental heir of that same maid of honor, this diamond wonder, or her clasp, the confused and naive costume designer of the St. Petersburg theater?..