The heroine of the Russian melodramatic series "The Heiress" is Marina, a young and ambitious journalist from the capital city. She receives an unexpected greeting from the past when her grandfather leaves her... a sawmill in a province on the shore of a lake. This is not the most typical line of work for a native Muscovite, but she decides not to sell the inheritance and instead use it wisely. Especially since she is already being suspended from publishing due to her "sharp" material. However, the family business turns out to be not as simple as it seems...