The focus of the story is a woman named Vera, who has dedicated her life to her family - her common-law husband Sergey, her son Anatoly, and her stepdaughter Irina. Sergey, a retired military man, started a business after his service and bought a house, while Vera became a true guardian of the hearth. Everything would have been perfect, but Irina was concerned about one fact - Sergey never proposed to her after 20 years of living together. When Sergey unexpectedly passed away, Vera realized that she had no rights to anything...