Orphanage director Alexandra Ivanovna Vaneeva, who grew up in one herself, dedicated her life to raising children who, for various reasons, were left without parents. She adopted and raised one of them, Seryozha. But on the eve of Seryozha's wedding, his birth mother appears, remembering him many years later. Seryozha refuses to maintain a relationship with the mother who abandoned him as a child. Seryozha's real mother, Alexandra Ivanovna, surrounded him with attention and love.
