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Nadia Lapshina, a girl from Irkutsk, has always dreamed of being a figure skater, but has problems with coordination and balance, which is why the famous children's coach Irina Sergeevna Shatalina refuses to take her as an apprentice, contrary to the faith and persuasions of Nadia's mother. But mom, despite her illness, studies with Nadia by the book, even on the ice of Lake Baikal. When the girl's mother dies of a heart attack, her aunt Margosha moves into Nadia's apartment.Margosha sells bananas, treats her niece well and takes care of her as best she can, but is completely indifferent to Nadia's hobby. However, the girl does not give up and eventually shows such perseverance that Shatalina decides to take her to a sports school.Margosha sells bananas, treats her niece well and takes care of her as best she can, but is completely indifferent to Nadia's hobby. However, the girl does not give up and eventually shows such perseverance that Shatalina decides to take her to a sports school.Nadia begins to live in a boarding school at the local sports palace and learn the basics and subtleties of figure skating. At first, nothing works out for her, but determination and good learning ability take their toll and Nadia becomes the best student of the boarding school. As a result, Shatalina puts her up as a candidate for children's figure competitions held throughout the country. Another girl, who was the best before Nadia, tries to disrupt her performance by blunting her skates, but Nadia does the impossible and even rolls a first-class dance on blunt blades.Years have passed. Nadia matured and became one of the most famous figure skaters in the country. Shatalina offers her to move to the top league, having tried in Moscow for the place of a partner to the famous figure skater Vladimir Leonov. Nadia initially refuses, not wanting to leave her beloved coach, but Shatalina, wishing her success, tells Nadia that her mother deceived her, saying that Shatalina saw talent in her as a child, and she took her only because of her perseverance in achieving the goal. Nadia is upset, but decides to take a chance and eventually gets a place.Soon he and Vova begin to live together and he even thinks of proposing to her. However, during the next performance, a catastrophe occurs: when performing an untreated ejection, Vova drops Nadia, from a strong fall she gets a spinal injury, loses the ability to walk and becomes disabled. Nadia closes herself in from depression and stops communicating with everyone.In the capital, she fails to heal, and Nadezhda returns to her aunt and her friend, confined to a wheelchair. Shatalina, understanding the troubles of the former student, wants to help her. Meanwhile, in the local hockey team, striker Alexander Gorin has a fight with a friend, during which he touches Shatalina, which is why he is suspended from the game. Shatalina offers him a deal: he will help Nadia recover, and Shatalina will return him to the team. Sasha pretends to agree, but at first tries to cheat, seeing that Nadia is completely crushed and sees no chance to recover. However, Shatalina quickly exposes him, and he is forced to act for real.At first, Sasha and Nadia can't stand each other, but the cheerful Sasha shows himself to be a good psychologist and begins to restore Nadia's faith in herself, first playing hard jokes on her, but then finding a common language. Soon it bears fruit: the sensitivity of the legs and the ability to move their fingers begin to return to Nadia. After that, they switch to physical therapy: Sasha starts taking Nadia to a local gym, where she restores atrophied leg muscles and learns to walk again. As a result, she gets back on her feet, and then returns to the ice.By this point, their relationship with Sasha had reached an almost romantic level. Sasha admits to Nadia that before hockey as a child, he also did figure skating for a while. As a result, Nadia persuades him to act as her partner in the number-return in his usual role of a hockey player. The resulting unusual number is very warmly received.After their successful joint performance, Vladimir's coach comes to Shatalina and convinces her that Nadia can continue to win only with Leonov, and Sasha finds Vova in the locker room, who tries to convince him to leave Nadia, claiming that only he, Vladimir, can lead her to an Olympic medal. Sasha spends the whole next day in sad thoughts: he understands that he has fallen in love with Nadia and wants to be with her, but Vova's words have touched him too deeply. As a result, he gets drunk, comes to Nadia and lies to her that all this time he helped her only out of pity, leaving a big teddy bear he won at the shooting range.Nadia is teaming up with Vladimir again, but under the leadership of Shatalina. After a while, they perform at a big competition, but on the same side release, Hope falls again. The doctor determines that Nadia no longer has any problems with her back: it's a matter of pure psychosomatics. Nadia wants to continue her performance, but Vladimir, not believing in success, explodes and says that in fact he always considered Nadia an insignificant figure skater and performed with her only because of her popularity among the people. Nadia leaves him and returns to the ice to perform alone, although it is against the rules.Sasha, who was watching the competition on TV, decides not to stay away and urgently gets to Sochi. Having penetrated into the stadium, he takes away his suit from the dejected Vladimir and goes out on the ice to Nadia. She tearfully demands from him to tell why he came, and he confesses his feelings to her. The judges refuse to start the music for them again, but Nadia's uncle, who was sitting with Margosha among the audience, starts singing himself, and then the whole hall picks up the song, and Nadia and Sasha perform a beautiful duet number to it, during which Nadia sees her mother's ghost on the podium.

Despite the fact that they were disqualified, Nadia and Sasha are happy, because now they are together both on and off the ice.