A long time ago, as a twenty-year-old young man, Grigory committed a terrible act, because of which his conscience torments him up to the present time. Today he lives far from big cities with his old mother, who wants to help her only son with all her might, but does not know how – and suffers a lot because of this.
Durante a guerra russo-japonesa, em 1904, Sergey Karenin (Kirill Grebenshchikov), chefe de hospital, descobre que um dos oficiais feridos sob sua supervisão é o conde Vronsky (Max Matveev), a pessoa que arruinou sua mãe, Anna Karenina (Elizaveta Boyarskaya). Agora, ele procura maiores informações sobre o amante da mãe e que razão a levou a desistir da vida.
Two women, two destinies, two Nastyas. One is a policewoman, the other a criminal. But who of them is actually in prison? At the basis of the script lies the real story of Nastya Cherepanova, a postwoman from near Nizhni Novgorod, who in 2011 stole pensions from a savings bank and
went to search for a better life with her lover.
