After losing her parents, Masha falls in love with her guardian Sergei Mikhailovich. Masha is young, Sergei Mikhailovich is much older, and they have to go through a difficult path to understanding each other.

1995, Russian Federation. Lyubov Ivanovna is a teacher in a public school for troubled youth. One day a new boy appears in her class - Kolya, the silent orphan with a permanent scowl, who reminds Lyubov Ivanovna of her dead son, who brings back memories of her dead son.