An experienced virologist, Anya Markova, gives up her personal and professional life in Moscow and moves to work at a research center in Novosibirsk. She is clearly trying to escape from some personal pain, but in a new place fate throws the heroine another test - an outbreak of an unknown disease is recorded at the site of an illegal dump of a large meat processing plant in a remote village.
One day in the life of a young man named Sasha. Home, study, work - the main character is happy to tell the viewer about all this. But besides this, there is a dream in his life that sets him apart from the usual everyday mass.