About the series
Nina has always dreamed of having children, but her husband Sergei, a gynecologist at a district hospital, talks her out of it. He is convinced that neither their financial situation nor their living conditions allow them to have a child. Nina works as a Russian language and literature teacher at a school, and devotes all her time to her students. Fedya, one of them, worries her especially. His mother served a prison sentence and now drinks, his grandmother is seriously ill, and Fedya himself has already been caught stealing. Nina takes it upon herself to help the boy...