A retired lieutenant colonel Evgeniy Gennadievich Alexandrov is divorcing his wife in the courtroom. This woman accuses her ex-husband of all the deadly sins - because of him she spent her life in distant military units, because of him she could not have children, because of his forced resignation and a small pension she should look for a job, though she is used to staying at home. Evgeniy Gennadievich is barely tolerating her speech. The divorce is at his initiative and he abandons all his small property - a car and an apartment in the near Moscow region - in favor of his wife. So, by the age of forty, Evgeniy Gennadievich finds himself homeless, without a family or job. Now he is returning to the town of his childhood. Since the death of his mother, there has been an empty apartment in the old house on the outskirts of the city. Upon arrival Alexandrov doesn't not recognize his home. Everything is devastated. Alexander meets Lida, his friend from the childhood. Although she's the ...