After her husband's death, Nina's mother remarries a widower from a nearby town. Together with his son he moves to their house. So Nina has a half-brother – Andrew. Nina immediately shows sympathy for him, surrounds him with care, helps him get used to their home and new school.

Young people are in love, but Nina considers their feelings forbidden. She lies that she loves another – the rich handsome Plato, who has long been courting her. Thus, Nina involuntarily crosses the road to her cousin Jeanne, who had her own mercantile plans for Plato. And when Andrew publicly declares his love for Nina, she pushes the young man away. Andrew disappears from her life for many years, but they will meet again.

Two friends, friends since childhood, Mykola and Peter fell in love with one girl - Anna. However, she chooses Peter, and Nicholas is forced to accept it. To make money, friends are hired on a fishing boat. Peter dies in the sea. Nicholas returns home and becomes a support for the young widow and the young son of a dead friend.

Years pass - time heals… Anna marries Mykola. The new family lives peacefully and happily. A little later, Anna and Nicholas meet another happy couple: a girl Irene and her husband, in which Anna and Nicholas immediately recognize Peter. To their surprise, they realize that Peter does not recognize them: he does not remember the past, and the chance of remembering is zero… Bound by love, but separated by memory.