A person’s ability to love is both a blessing and a curse. Maryana Streltsova lives an ordinary life: she works as a paramedic, reflects on her divorce, and tries to maintain relationships with her parents. And only when she meets Aleksey Kravchenko, a forty-year-old commander of a parachute company, does she understand that the meaning of her existence is to be near this man and protect him.
Ignoring Kravchenko’s protests, Maryana goes with him to Chechnya and one day truly saves his life. But saving him doesn’t bring a happy ending: Maryana still has to go through a long recovery of her husband, face violence, balance on the edge of suicide, and end up committing a crime…