The Russian melodramatic series "Eight Beads on a Thin Thread" tells the story of a girl named Maria Uspenskaya. Suddenly, she receives an invitation from her aunt to attend a celebration for her jubilee. Masha could never have imagined that she had so many relatives. Aunt Marfa Stepanovna found everyone and invited them over. Masha managed to take care of all her affairs and headed to the village, anticipating a meeting with her cousins. But it turns out that the real reason why Marfa gathered the family for her 70th birthday lies elsewhere.