The fate of school teacher Eva Grineva is finally settled: her husband is smart and decent, she lives with him in Vienna, and her friends include Austrian aristocrats and artists. But her whole well-established life is going to waste... Unexpected love for a man who is fifteen years younger than her seems scandalous to everyone except Eva's brother Yuri. After all, his love for television journalist Zhenya Stevens arose in spite of everything. Yuri Grinev, a doctor at the Ministry of Emergency Situations, cannot give his wife what he is sure a TV star has the right to expect from her husband: money, social pleasures and other worldly blessings. But Yuri, like his sister Eva, trusts the voice of his heart more than the arguments of his mind...