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Love turns a woman's life upside down in this contemporary adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Chouga (Ainour Tourganbaeva) is a woman in her mid-thirties who lives in Astana, the capitol of Kazakhstan. When Chouga learns that her brother has fallen into a deep depression due to his failing marriage, she returns to her hometown of Almaty to help him deal with his troubles. In Almaty, Chouga meets Ablai (Aidos Sagatov), a handsome man several years her junior. Ablai becomes deeply infatuated with Chouga, even though she's married and he's engaged to marry Altynai (Ainour Sapargali). Ablai lures Chouga into an affair, but in time he tires of her while Chouga finds she can't go back to the life she once lived.