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Odessa, August 1970. The height of summer heat. The city is packed with vacationers. Boris, an international affairs journalist, flies in from Moscow with his eight-year-old son Valerik to visit his wife's parents, Grigory Iosifovich and Raisa Irovna Davydov. But on the very day of their arrival, a cholera quarantine is declared in Odessa and the city is shut down. So the son-in-law, who came from Moscow for just a couple of days, finds himself plunged into a world transformed by serious danger. Family secrets will come to light, incredible events will unfold, and a great forbidden love will occur.