Comprehensive parental love is not always a guarantee of family well-being. It is easy and even enjoyable to indulge children's whims, but then they grow up and need strict parental prohibitions and limitations. Will a kind and affectionate mother be able to say "no" for the first time? Alena is raising her daughter Ira alone. She has long forgotten about her own personal life. The main character is used to justifying her daughter's misdeeds and small deceptions, but soon her forgiveness leads to unpleasant consequences...