1970-e. V gorode Vorozhe bessledno ischezaet odinnadcatiletnyaya shkol'nica Lusha Rechnaya. 1933 god. Kembridzhskiy botanik Kristofer Uesker, s zhenoy Hannoy i malen'koy docher'yu Alisoy, edet v Sovetskiy Soyuz, chtoby prinyat' uchastie v sozdanii grandioznogo Goroda-sada. Eti sobytiya okazyvayutsya svyazany samym neozhidannym obrazom. Posle mnogih desyatiletiy razluki Hanna vozvrashchaetsya v Vorozh v nadezhde nayti doch', v shestiletnem vozraste popavshuyu v detskiy dom.