About the series
Zhenya and Alik have been in love with each other since graduating high school. But their parents oppose the relationship and do everything to separate the couple. Alik's family secures him a brilliant future as a chemist in Moscow, while Zhenya stays behind with her father in their hometown. Twenty years pass. Zhenya lives a steady, quiet life with her son Roma and her husband Klim, though without love. Everything changes when Alik returns to his hometown to open a new polymer manufacturing plant. He's a widower with a daughter, Sonya, and a girlfriend, Mira, who dreams of marrying him. Zhenya and Alik meet again, and their old feelings sweep over them completely. At first they resist, not wanting to hurt their loved ones, but love won't let them go. As soon as they give in to their emotions, the truth about their relationship crashes over both families like a ninth wave...