Aline is exhausted when her mother-in-law, Tamara Petrovna, shows up unannounced. What begins as familiar complaints quickly turns into a demand: Tamara insists her son must give her 50,000 rubles a month for full support. Aline explains they are drowning in loans, a mortgage, and child expenses, but Tamara dismisses this and accuses Aline of manipulating her son and wasting money.
The argument escalates into open insults about Aline, her children, and their life. At the peak of the fight, Kirill comes home and silently takes in the scene. When his mother demands he “put his wife in her place,” Kirill calmly does the opposite: he escorts his mother to the door, tells her to leave, and makes it clear she is not welcome back until she apologizes to Aline.
He locks the door behind her, choosing his wife and children over his mother—for good.
