Elina Litvinova

The late 1990s. Best friends Misha and Taya dream of escaping the small coastal town where adults have long since decided what their future should be. The brash Misha falls in love with a new teacher, while the quiet Taya hides the fact that her parents are planning to marry her off to a foreigner to save the family. Their friendship, through betrayal and pain, becomes a pillar of strength: they understand that growing up doesn't mean running away, but rather learning to stand up for yourself, even if it means being hurt by reality.

A journalist of a small provincial newspaper Yura has been writing unremarkable news of his hometown all his life. But suddenly an event happens to Yura that turns his whole life upside down — visions come to him that predict murders secretly and unnoticeably taking place in Rybinsk. Soon the situation is complicated by the fact that in one of the cases Yura becomes the main suspect.

Svetlana sets out to find her adopted daughter, who left to find her real parents and disappeared. At the same time in this resort town, a thirteen-year-old girl shoots her sleeping family, after which she tries to hang herself. A neighbor comes running to the gunshots and pulls the girl out of the noose. The head of the police of the district entrusts the investigation of the high-profile case to investigator Elvira Barayeva. But how are Svetlana, a St. Petersburg judge with a dark past, and her adopted daughter Kira connected to this case and this place?