A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library. The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...
| Directing | Alexey Mizgirev | Director |
| Writing | Alexey Mizgirev | Writer |
| Production | Andrey Rydanov | Producer |
| Production | Pavel Popov | Producer |
| Production | Ruben Dishdishyan | Producer |
| Camera | Vadim Deev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Denis Shibanov | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Knyazheva | Costume Design |
| Sound | Makar Akhpashev | Sound Director |
| Editing | Natalya Kucherenko | Editor |
| Directing | Mariya Gangus | Assistant Director |
| Production | Yevgeniya Vzorova | Casting Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Galina Ponomaryova | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Aleksandr Ligay | Additional Director of Photography |
| Crew | Anton Smekalkin | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Leonid Kulagin | Stunt Coordinator |
