Cinderella Without a Glass Slipper

After her father’s death and her mother’s departure, Vasilisa’s life became unbearable. She grew up surrounded by care and well-being, but after school she was forced to find hard work—washing dishes in a café—to somehow support her little family: her twelve-year-old brother Petya and her grandmother, paralyzed after a stroke. No matter how hard Vasilisa tried, there still wasn’t enough money. The only way out was to rent out one of the rooms in their three-room apartment. That’s how they get a new tenant—a handsome and, in every way, decent Sasha.