Vera患有可怕的疾病——不孕症。 她和她心爱的丈夫Andrey一起去参加了一个遥远地方的神秘团体，那里有一位治疗师 Afanasiy 神父。 尽管Andrey持怀疑态度，但奇迹还是发生了：Vera怀孕了。 但随着时间的推移，主人公们发现自己处于一种可怕的邪教影响之下，而Andrey必须竭尽全力挽救他的信仰。

The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.

On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who dies. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Sobolev decides to compromise with his conscience and calls on a colleague to help him out. But the case turns out to be messy and when Sobolev finally changes his mind and tries to make up for his deed, it’s already too late…