Olga is a museum worker in a provincial town. Four years ago, her one-year-old daughter Yulia disappeared. Olga's husband Igor is saved from depression by connections on the side, Olga has gone headlong into work. Upon learning that the investigator is closing the case of Yulia's disappearance, Igor offers his wife to put up with it and give birth to another child. But Olga refuses. She believes that the girl is alive.
Igor Rozhnov (Dmitry Ulyanov) could call himself an accomplished person. He has his own business, a chic mansion and a beautiful bride, Kristina (Yevgenia Loza). But successful life does not please Rozhnov. Deep down, he doesn't believe that he can be as happy again as he was thirteen years ago. Everything changes when Igor's competitors decide to ruin him. Without knowing it, they are giving him the biggest gift of his life.
Alisa Lapikova is seventeen years old. She has a very prosperous life: a rich father, a good house, a lot of pocket money. This is where all the good things in Alisa's life end. She has a disgusting relationship with her stepmother Elena and her daughter from her first marriage, Lida. And everyone blames Alisa for this. Even my own father. Elena first accuses Alisa of theft - she allegedly stole an expensive necklace, and then claims that Alisa wants to poison her, and presents evidence that her father believes. Lapikov, in love with Elena, announces to Alisa that he no longer wants to even hear about her. Now Alisa will live with her mother. Alisa had been told her entire life that her mother was dead, but she recently learned that her mother officially abandoned her when Alisa was two years old.
Andrey Konchalovsky's project "Burden of Power" is about unpopular decisions of heads of state and political figures in power. The heroes of the cycle "Burden of power" can not be called fighters for liberal ideas, but they paradoxically had a huge impact on the fate and development of their countries.