Zhenya grew up without parents, in the family of a strict lady who considers herself an aristocrat. Since childhood, Zhenya’s main consolation was books. She got a job in a bookstore - and it so happened that its owner, a respectable forty-year-old businessman, asked her to marry. A new cage, this time golden, but the orphan has no choice... In a large apartment, where she will “build a family nest,” a young wife finds a portrait of a young beauty. A strange feeling forces Zhenya to begin a real investigation to find out about her fate. The results lead to despair... What will help her not to lose heart, to withstand the struggle for her own happiness? Perhaps books read...