1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
In the first days of the war, the mother lost her little daughter. Mikhailina found her and took her in, no doubt that she could become her real mother. All subsequent years she lived for the sake of the girl. But as time went on, the real mother continued to look for her child...