Construction of the Dream Valley cottage community is nearly complete. Maxim Miloradovich brings Nadya to his newly built house and proposes marriage. Nadya's ex-husband, Lev, is being released on parole but can't find work in the city. He's considering moving to Moscow to try his luck there. Lev and Nadya's son, Kostya, has been waiting for his father to return from prison for two years and is now upset that he's leaving again. Max's ex-wife, Elena, brings their daughter, Polina, to Izluchinsk. But soon, Mayor Polyakov announces that Dream Valley is to be demolished.
Construction of the Dream Valley cottage community is nearly complete. Maxim Miloradovich brings Nadya to his newly built house and proposes marriage. Nadya's ex-husband, Lev, is being released on parole but can't find work in the city. He's considering moving to Moscow to try his luck there. Lev and Nadya's son, Kostya, has been waiting for his father to return from prison for two years and is now upset that he's leaving again. Max's ex-wife, Elena, brings their daughter, Polina, to Izluchinsk. But soon, Mayor Polyakov announces that Dream Valley is to be demolished.
A fire breaks out in Dream Valley. Nadya sees her son's bicycle near one of the burning houses. Max rushes into the flames... Dream Valley burns completely. Foreman Denis Mitrofanov dies in the fire. Sonya Khlynova, with severe burns, is between life and death. Investigator Novikov suspects that Max may have set the fire, with a motive: to collect money from the insurance company.