The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Violetta, hired as a nanny for the family of a successful businessman, Stas, knew this. And though she didn’t have to lull a baby—the boy was already past that age—management of the life of the household had passed into her hands. Everything went off the rails of the routine established by the mistress. Relationships in the family flared to the limit. Is the old woman to blame—an intruder who deliberately inserted herself into the life of the young couple and with suspicious joy took it upon herself to patch the holes in the family ship? Or are the hidden skeletons in the closet, about whose existence the spouses have already forgotten, to blame?