The story’s protagonist is a regular small-town girl Marta Raytsyna who was forced to escape her birthplace after an unfair murder accusation. Under an alias, she gets into a home belonging to Igor Parfyonov running for a mayor of the country’s capital and his large family. Here Marta meets and falls in love with Aleksey, Parfyonov’s stepson, who has been covertly fighting his stepfather for many years. The situation is further complicated by the fact that Marta is the wife of Dmitry, Parfyonov’s youngest son, a well-known streetracer and playboy, who married her to get under his father’s skin but with time fell in love for real.