After working at the gallery for twenty years, Irina finally decides to quit in order to devote herself to home and family. However, it soon becomes clear that neither her husband nor her adult daughters need her care.

After working at the gallery for twenty years, Irina finally decides to quit in order to devote herself to home and family. However, it soon becomes clear that neither her husband nor her adult daughters need her care. Her husband Boris, the owner of a construction business, disappears from morning to night at a construction site, the eldest daughter lives with her family abroad, and the youngest Yulya is passionate about an affair with a married man. Ira tries to dissuade her daughter from this relationship, but she asks her mother not to interfere in her life. To keep herself busy, Irina goes to study at a painting school. The young and talented teacher and artist Maksim falls in love with her. Despite a significant age difference and other serious circumstances, they begin an affair. Irina reproaches herself for her frivolity, because all this could destroy her family, but she can't do anything... at forty-five, she begins her second youth.