Alena from Tula is 40 years old. She is a single mother raising two children: her eldest, Vika, is 21, and her younger son, Pavel, is 12. Since childhood, life has not been easy: her parents were cold toward her, and at 16 Alena left home and began a relationship with a 20-year-old man who was insanely jealous and, after the birth of their daughter, turned the girl’s life into hell. Her second serious relationship, in which Alena gave birth to a son, also did not work out: her husband drank, cheated on her, and was physically abusive. When her son was 1.5 years old, Alena left, and since then she has forgotten about her personal life. There was no time for it anyway: to survive, she had to work two jobs and take on extra work. But recently, Vika suggested that her mother should still think about a relationship and signed her up on a dating website. That is where Alena met Alexey, who is serving a sentence in a penal colony under Article 228…
