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Nadya was widowed young and raised two children on her own. Long ago she gave up hope of finding personal happiness, and now it seems even more impossible — she is already a grandmother. Nadya works in a flower shop, where Lyonya, her peer and also a widower with two grown children, often stops by. For his young lover, it is Nadya who prepares the beautiful bouquets. One day, however, Lyonya catches his girlfriend with another man. Disillusioned, he firmly decides never again to get involved with younger women. Instead, he chooses something unexpected: he proposes to Nadya. Nadya is bewildered. She knows Lyonya does not truly love her, and his children oppose the marriage. Yet for her, this might be the last chance at personal happiness — and she decides to take it.
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Nadya was widowed young and raised two children on her own. Long ago she gave up hope of finding personal happiness, and now it seems even more impossible — she is already a grandmother. Nadya works in a flower shop, where Lyonya, her peer and also a widower with two grown children, often stops by. For his young lover, it is Nadya who prepares the beautiful bouquets. One day, however, Lyonya catches his girlfriend with another man. Disillusioned, he firmly decides never again to get involved with younger women. Instead, he chooses something unexpected: he proposes to Nadya. Nadya is bewildered. She knows Lyonya does not truly love her, and his children oppose the marriage. Yet for her, this might be the last chance at personal happiness — and she decides to take it.
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