The young provincial beauty, without too much difficulty, entered the faculty of philology of a prestigious university in the capital, without hesitating on the means, made her way to success. Married not "for love" to a wealthy young Moscow scientist, she finds an apartment, a car and admirers, but gives up science, loses true friends and a talented leader, betrays her loving husband. And after a divorce, she does not become free, rich and happy at all. It makes the heroine wonder if she really needs such a hypocritically empty and soulless life?