Vera Elagina is a brilliant surgeon specializing in elective abdominal surgery. The profession taught her to be decisive and tough, to be able to hide her feelings. One day, Vera learns that her patient, 16-year-old Zoya, died under strange circumstances. At one time, Vera, using false prescriptions, helped Zoya, who had undergone surgery, purchase opioid analgesics. Because of the ongoing investigation, the forgery emerges, and a case is initiated against Vera for the distribution of narcotic drugs. Vera is put on a bracelet, and now Pakhomov becomes her warden...