Youth, love games of a young heart—how fascinating! Nelly Lugovskaya tried to stretch them out for a lifetime, and it worked: the years pass, and she still looks like a flower—though faded, but beautiful. Only the closest people don’t know what deep inner bitterness her carefree youth turned into for her—youth that fell on the unforgettable 60s with their romance and illusions… The fatal mistakes of mother’s youth have to be corrected by her grown-up son, Ivan. Will he have enough courage and willpower for that? And how will he behave when, after long and exciting travels around the world, fate suddenly throws him from Moscow into a small provincial town?