Smotrim

Marina, a beautiful and talented professor's daughter, drags out a miserable existence. After the death of her father, she threw all her strength into helping her married lover Yuri to advance in the service. And after becoming dean, Yuri, in order to avoid gossip, left Marina as a laboratory assistant.

Vera has the perfect marriage. She's a caring housewife and excels at her primary task—pleasing and providing a comfortable life for her husband, Boris, a musician and conservatory teacher. Vera might have lived a somewhat dull and stable life if not for her younger sister, Nika, who unexpectedly and unceremoniously intruded on their family idyll. Vera isn't happy about the unexpected visit, and for good reason. She and her sister became strangers after Nika "stole" Vera's happiness, stealing her sister's fiancé, her first "school love." Now Nika has separated from her husband and is once again "actively searching." And, as several years ago, Nika's choice once again falls on Vera's chosen one. It seems history is repeating itself. But this time, Vera isn't giving up. She will try to reclaim her "stolen happiness."

When Vera’s husband realizes that she will never be able to bear him children, he leaves her for her best friend. Struggling to recover from this betrayal, Vera takes in a homeless orphan she finds on the street and decides to adopt him. She is unaware that the boy, Vanya, is the heir to a vast fortune—and that he is being hunted. A man she happens to meet, a lawyer also named Ivan, offers to help her with the adoption process. However, upon meeting Vanya, he realizes that this is the very boy being sought by his own clients—guardians who are after the child’s inheritance. Now, Ivan and Vera face a difficult choice: should they act according to the letter of the law, or according to their conscience?