About the series
The town of Zastupinsk, somewhere between Moscow and Alma-Ata, closer to Voronezh. Vera, a station buffet waitress, and Platon Ryabinin, a pianist from Moscow, meet under rather unappealing circumstances. As a result, Vera loses her fiancé with the melons, but finds a beloved one who is soon to be sent to a remote place to serve a sentence for a crime he did not commit...