When a new woman came into his life, Alex smiled for the first time in a long while. He believed that now things would be easier for his son — that he would finally have a caring mother. But reality turned out to be very different. From the very first day, the stepmother disliked the boy. Everything about him irritated her — the way he ate, played, looked. She said he was spoiled, wild, and disobedient. Alex tried to ease the tension, but with every passing day, the atmosphere in the house grew colder.