A young forty-year-old surgeon Oleg Volkov has been appointed to the post of chief physician of the maternity hospital, who is trying to change the abortive consciousness of society at least at the level of his maternity hospital, where, in addition to childbirth, abortions are also performed - as elsewhere in Russia.
Danya and Natalya simultaneously lose their closest person - their childhood friend and son. Their reaction to this shock becomes the starting point for the misunderstanding that the boy feels.
