Asya, a lame collective farmer, is in love with the father of her unborn child. However, he does not reciprocate, leaving her forced to choose between a loveless marriage to another suitor, or single motherhood.
An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
After setting fire to the penal isolator of the ITU, Sasha escapes and gets to Turkmenistan, where her grandmother works as a geologist at one of the polustants - the only and last hope for understanding and sympathy. But the grandmother, fearing grave consequences, intends to return her granddaughter to the hands of justice ...
It would seem that nothing is keeping the main character in Ivanovsk, especially since her sister Tamarka has settled well in Chicago and has been calling her for a long time. But she doesn’t go to America and doesn’t even want to.