A gypsy theater actress, the brilliant Nina Moldavanskaya, is married to a member of the GPU. The love of Maxim Naganov is tested by time and trials, and Nina is happy with him. For many years she hasn’t seen her nomadic relatives. But in the hungry year of 1933, thousands of gypsies—blacksmiths and fortune-tellers, horse dealers and beggars, gangsters and peaceful kettlemakers—flow into Moscow from all over Russia. The GPU leadership decides to cleanse Stalin’s capital of the "nomadic element". The operation is entrusted to Nina’s husband. And while leaving Moscow for tours, the actress doesn’t even know what threat hangs not only over the nomadic gypsies, but also over her grown daughters…