Nastya—a student at a Moscow university—has a real talent. She seems to attract misfortune the way a magnet attracts metal. After a fight with her boyfriend, she goes alone for a vacation to Yalta. In the train, a friendly fellow passenger from her compartment drugs her with chloroform, assaults her, and robs her. In Yalta, Nastya meets a sympathetic guy who offers her a place to stay. But when she ends up in his home, she finds the corpse of a strangled girl in her room and, in fear, runs away. With no belongings or documents, and unwilling to ask relatives for help, Nastya decides to earn money and return home—only to find new troubles waiting for her on the way…