Konets proshlogo veka, perelomnye 80-tye i likhie 90-tye, na postsovetskom prostranstve proiskhodyat dramaticheskie sobytiya. Maksim Shvedov i Sasha Vershinina, molodye lyudi, polyubivshie drug druga, zhivut v Dushanbe. Politicheskie intrigi i bor'ba klanov, raskolovshie obshchestvo v Tadzhikistane, privodyat k grazhdanskoy voyne. Lyudi massovo pokidayut rodnoy gorod, stavshiy chuzhim. Maksim i Sasha prokhodyat cherez slozhnye zhiznennye situatsii. Kak slozhitsya ikh sud'ba? Obretut li oni schast'e?