Alena has to run away from home when her stepfather begins to dirty-molest her young stepdaughter. But where to go? There, beyond the threshold, no one is waiting for her. A defenseless girl, like a whirlpool, rushes into marriage. Family life turns into a real nightmare: the “gentle boy” Vadik does not work and washes down his temporary failures with alcohol, his mother-in-law takes all his salary and blames his daughter-in-law for all the troubles. Alena, intimidated by scandals and beatings from her husband, disappears for days at work in the hospital. During one of her shifts, Grigory Grachev, a well-known businessman in the city, ends up in the surgical department after a shootout. And from the first minute Alena understands that she will never love anyone more. The two-meter handsome Gregory rescues her from troubles and poverty. But his chosen one pays with interest for this fairy tale...