The heroine of the series "Zhizn rassudit" is a simple and modest girl named Nadezhda from a village in the Urals. After burying her parents, she lives with her grandfather and continues his craft of painting clay pots and cups. The beauty has only one very simple dream - to marry the boy next door, Pashka, have children with him, and live together in their small homeland until old age. But the plans of the happy couple are disrupted by Pashka's mother. She is not satisfied with the "unsuitable" bride and sends the young man to study far away in the big city.