A powerful drug cartel in Moscow wants to use American businessman Steve Nichols in a smuggling scheme and ensures his cooperation by kidnapping his daughter. So Nichols solicits the help of a former KGB agent.

In the past, Soviet prima ballerina and now world-renowned choreographer Ruta Myers returns to the country after almost 40 years to stage a performance at the country's main ballet theater. Ruta is forced to rebuild relationships with friends and enemies, who have become key people in the Russian ballet over the past time, but most importantly — with the artistic director of the theater Andrei Pronin and his family. They were once a couple, and now old feelings and old resentments flare up with renewed vigor. A lot of money, ambitions, and a career are at stake — Ruta, despite all her efforts, finds herself in the epicenter of passions and intrigues very far from the world of art.

Сценарий Селена Андреева, Юрий Грымов, Татьяна Егерева. По мотивам повести Ивана Тургенева "Му-му".
Сильному и неординарному, но недоброму человеку дана почти безграничная власть над другими людьми. Сознательно лишая себя многих житейских радостей и пытаясь изжить в себе естественные человеческие чувства, героиня загоняет себя в угол. Осознав, что попытка не увенчалась успехом и страдая от этого, она обрекает на страдания и других, беззащитных перед ее волей, ломает их судьбы.

An incomplete family. A house without a man. A daughter without a father. Twenty years of waiting, full of a child's pure love for a man she has never met. The desire to understand the reason for her father's indifference to her becomes obsessive. She resolves to find him by all means. Express train "Northern Lights" St. Petersburg - Moscow. A long-awaited meeting that will turn her life upside down...