Of course, Valeria Burova was—if we put it mildly—not thrilled when, on her apartment’s doorstep, a twenty-year-old upstart, Yulia, showed up. The girl announced that she was the daughter of Valeria’s husband, about whose existence he had not known all these years. Even Leonid himself was thrown off by the news, but he couldn’t throw the newly discovered daughter out of the house and began helping her in every possible way. And that’s how it all started: omissions, misunderstandings, quarrels in the family—and then Lenya went to work and never came back. Valeria ended up at a crossroads—should she get divorced, or should she still search for that wayward husband to bring him back to their marital nest? Or maybe the reason for his disappearance isn’t an affair at all, but something far worse?..