Maks is a typical Moscow teenager from a wealthy family: spoiled, stubborn, childish. Maks is alone - both internally and externally, and he experiences this state painfully. Maks's mother is the chairman of the Committee on Family and Children in the Duma and is preparing for another re-election. An authoritative, decisive woman, she planned Maks's fate for years to come: prestigious studies, prestigious work, career - but she herself forgot the last time she had a heart-to-heart talk with her son.

The early 2000s. Young Natasha is torn between the pressure of her rational parents, determined to send her to law school, and her dreams of entering the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. A new classmate, the gifted musician Igor, helps her believe in herself and take a risk. The young people fall in love. Years later, Natasha and Igor meet by chance at an exhibition of her paintings. This brings them back to memories of their happy times.

Tatyana Viktorovna Gizatullina is an English teacher from the city of Bugulma, where everything seems to be forever stuck between the past and the future. After a series of failures, she desperately turns to space with a request for a miracle - and suddenly the news spreads around the city: the first Bugulma cosmonaut Sergey Lysov, her classmate, is returning home after 25 years. This event sets off a chain of incredible changes in the life of Tatyana and the entire school.

A love story between two colleagues, who lie to their partners and to themselves.