An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
Uzbek citizen Yury Derbenev is sent to work in Moscow to raise money for the treatment of a seriously ill daughter. His profession, however, is inappropriate: Yury Alexeevich is a teacher of Russian language and literature. And by nationality he is Russian. After many ordeals and misfortunes into which the capital plunged him, Yury is faced with a choice: to go to kill and save his own daughter or remain an honest person.
Anya is a mother of many children. Yana is a convinced childfree. They have diametrically different ideas about happiness, but the same - about friendship. Together with kindergarten, they cannot imagine life without one another and have long resigned themselves to the fact that they will never understand each other in family matters. The status quo lasts thirty years... until this story begins.