On her eighteenth birthday, Lulya Rybakova learns a terrible truth about herself. It turns out that her mother (the janitor in Kingisepp) was just the one who carried her. She was hired by a wealthy family from France as a surrogate mother and fled to Russia in the third month of pregnancy. On the day of Lulya’s birthday, a representative of the family arrives and, threatening Lulya’s mother with violence, forces the girl to go to her real relatives. The surrogate mother tries to talk Lulya out of it and is even ready to go to prison—only not to let her daughter into the de Marmontel house. This is a terrible family. One from which the woman fled long ago, trying to save the child—because the conception of Lulya is already a part of the vile plan of an ancient aristocratic line.