In the center of the plot is the heroine of the story, who went through hell and was able to start a new life.

Ekaterina Martynova, at the age of fourteen, became a victim of Viktor Mokhov, nicknamed the "Skopinsky maniac". The criminal held Ekaterina and her seventeen-year-old friend Elena Samokhina for almost four years in the basement of a garage on his property in the city of Skopin, Ryazan region.