Part one: "Mongrel Lyalya"

17-year-old gypsy Lyalya Rubinova really needs money, so she decides to rob the house of the local rich Sviridovs at night.

At the time of the crime, she was found by the son of the owner of the house Serhiy. But instead of calling the police, the guy offers the robber ... to marry him. And Lyalya agrees. But will the wedding take place?

This is the story of a dangerous love quadrangle, from which, after fatal events, only two people in love got out, survived and found happiness.

Part two: "Beauty Lyalya"

Red-haired gypsy Lyalya is waiting for new twists of fate. Lyalya will become Catherine, change her place of residence, style and image.

Part three: "Return of Lyalya"

Six months have passed since the last events in the TV series "Mongrel Lyalya". Much has changed in Lyalya's life. After all the trials, she left the city and lives far from civilization. She keeps in touch only with Anna, and even then asks without much need not to disturb her solitary lifestyle. Six months later, a reason arose: a gynecologist who was giving birth in Lyalya died and before his death revealed to the head of the colony Gromov the secret that he had sold Lyalya's child to another woman. Lyalya goes in search of her baby.

Oksana Gromova is released from prison, where she spent several years for an uncommitted crime. She returns to her home, but learns that her young son Mitya considers her sister his mother. Unable to disrupt the child's family happiness, Oksana leaves, leaving the baby.

A few years later she became a famous puppet master. Her works are exhibited in stores and bought by collectors.

One day Oksana's life changes after a trip with a strange taxi driver. He helps her get home and then meets her again when she goes to one of her doll buyers, a woman who conducts trainings and conducts auctions. And offers a great order.

Taxi driver Oleg took her to the sea. Young people start dating, but Oksana is afraid to tell her husband that she has an almost grown son.

A film from the series ‘Chosen by Time’.

At the heart of the story is the outstanding figure of Ivan Kotliarevskyi, a humanist and writer, an enlightener, the first classic of Ukrainian literature, the author of the famous Eneida, and the creator of the gem of Ukrainian drama, Natalka Poltavka.