A married couple Irina and Leonid save a little girl who miraculously survived in a car crash in the mountains. They don’t have children, and thinking that the girl’s family has died they decide to adopt her and call Nina.
Years pass, Nina turns into a real beauty. After the tragic death of Leonid, a former mountaineer, Irina fully devotes herself to her daughter. She is worried for her as the girl dreams of mountains and wants to follow in the footsteps of Leonid and become a rock-climber.
Meanwhile in remote mountainous Ossetia, an old monk manages to find Nina’s brother, Mikhail. The old man confesses to him that many years ago he gave the little girl to another family.