The film tells the story of Natalya, 35, who at the age of 16 was married off under compulsion, directly from the orphanage. In an isolated house in the countryside Natalya lives a hard and solitary life together with her spouse, a brutal and narrow-minded man. After the death of her unloved husband Natalya gains a second life, the real one. The open spaces, the river and the forest participate in the creation of a new Natalya; the same does her encounter with the trucker Sergey. From now on she is in the mood for love…