The year is 1948. Nina Levitskaya, a former opera singer and mother of four children, knows nothing about the fate of her husband, who disappeared from sight almost a year ago. According to rumors, the father of the family, responsible employee Alexander should be somewhere in Moscow. Clouds are gathering around the family, and in order to avoid possible arrest, Nina urgently sells all her property, collects the children and leaves Sverdlovsk for the capital.