A young teacher, Masha, who herself knew all too well what it’s like to grow up an orphan, decided to adopt the gifted girl Alya.
Could Masha have imagined that this sincere selfless act would become the beginning of a strange, full of dangerous adventures and incredible events—almost a detective story? Could she have foreseen that Alya’s father, a man she believed to be an unfeeling and cruel scoundrel, would turn out to be not just her faithful and only friend, but also a gentle, passionate lover—capable of healing the wounds in her soul that had once been inflicted by a man’s betrayal?