The protagonist of the series "The Outcast" is Maria Ostanikina, once a happy wife and mother who suddenly loses everything. She discovers that she is HIV positive, and her husband abandons her, filing for divorce and kidnapping their young son Vitya. Masha sets out to find her child but gets caught up in a criminal conflict and loses her memory. She wakes up in a hospital under the attentive care of Dr. Nikolai Vershinin and has no idea how she ended up there. The man is willing to help the charming patient unravel her problems.