The talented pianist Masha and her mother get into an accident that deprives her of the opportunity to play her favorite instrument, and her lover leaves her in a difficult moment. Twelve years later, fate decides to play a cruel joke on Maria again. She is fired from the music school. The heroine decides to leave everything and go to her sister Nadezhda, but her sister dies. Sergei, the husband of the dead sister, tries to support Maria in everything, and the young people gradually fall in love with each other...