Four Russian small-town girls open a fitness club, humorously struggling at first. The show explores the difficulties uneducated women face in a traditional religious society with gender inequality and maltreatment.<

September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes - but not rescuers - are the first to arrive at the scene.