Oleg's young beautiful daughter Alyona falls in love with his once best friend and peer, Anton.Oleg does everything he can to prevent the union of his only daughter with an immoral type like Anton, whose past makes him the worst candidate for son-in-law in the world.

For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…