In the stagnant years in a town on the Angara, Tamara Ivanovna—an agricultural laborer’s daughter—settled in and built a solid working family: a husband who drives a truck (a chauffeur), a son and a daughter, and she herself as a hardworking woman. The perestroika that began in the country brought this family trials, striking the weakest link. Sixteen-year-old Sveta lost her way and became a victim of a rapist. In this situation, Tamara Ivanovna became the main defender not only of her household, but of the very phenomenon of the family itself. She drew her strength from her rural roots, from the beliefs and moral principles she had received in childhood. And her hopes for the future were tied to her son, named after her father Ivan.