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Sasha Makarov dreams of working at a prestigious school in Moscow, but instead is forced, as he sees it, to "waste away" in Pskov - at the very same school where he himself once studied. The students are insolent, the deputy headmistress despises Sasha, and he himself trusts no one except one person - a childhood friend. Or is she already more than a friend? Love heals any wound, but it also demands honesty. And Sasha has something to hide from the whole world.