The story of a young teacher Nadezhda Panaeva, who had just left the walls of the pedagogical institute and began her adult life. She dreams of happiness, her beloved husband, her own comfortable house. But her dreams, if destined to come true, then not immediately. Betrayal of a loved one, a burned down house, despair and unwillingness to live - Nadia will have to go the hard way to her happiness and understand that true love is not fiction.