Dark days came for theater critic Nadya Cherkashina - the magazine “Moscow Stage”, where she worked, was slowly dying. What to live on? Where to find a new job? As luck would have it, Nadya urgently needed a large sum: before her death, a friend left her a Van Gogh canvas as a gift - an unknown version of “The Potato Eaters.” But Nadya immediately started having problems! An Interpol agent who came to Cherkashina said: the painting is fake, and stolen, and Nadya must return it to the previous owner. After thinking, the girl decided to buy the painting and take the money from... her ex-husband, the famous actor Alexander Kholmogorov. True, for this she will have to marry him again, although after the betrayal, Nadya no longer believed in his suddenly flared passion. She didn’t know: Alexander was simply playing at love, and the stakes for this role were very high – his own life. Kholmogorov is being blackmailed into taking a Van Gogh painting from his ex-wife at any cost...