Victor Strelnikov’s family is struck by grief: his wife tragically dies, leaving two little children behind. In this hard time, there’s no room for old scores, and Victor’s first wife, Alexandra, comes to help. For twenty-five years she had been a happy mother, until she learned about her husband’s affairs—and now she understands that after the divorce they still never became strangers. She becomes so attached to her husband’s children that she considers them her own and is even ready to marry her ex again, keep his home clean and cozy, endure the mockery of his ridiculous mother-in-law, his endless mistresses—just so the children, whom someone else gave birth to for the Strelnikovs, would always be with her…