The film features the life of a teenager boy who lives in the remote Taiga settlement. Born to ordinary parents - an oil-field driller and a nurse - the boy is a successful schoolboy. Each summer the family goes to the Crimea to visit the boy′s grandmother. Their quiet life is ruined when the father faces troubles caused by his job. He starts drinking and the wife becomes addicted too. The teenager is left on his own and becomes obliged to sell stolen things. Suddenly, he gets hold of an object that gives new direction to the family.