Listen to the silence is the title. A young woman-Nastya- arrives in Moscow to study at the Conservatory and thinks her sister- Alya- will help her with a place to stay. Her sister, however, can only offer her to live in the hospital, where her son is waiting for a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, the only source of money…

A happy new father learns that's he is not the natural father of his son; despite this he decides to raise the child as his own. His wife leaves him after several years of quiet acrimony for the boy's natural father.