Nastya runs into Leonid and for the first time realizes that her grandmother may have a personal life. Coming to terms with this idea is proving to be more difficult than she expected. While the girl is experiencing a new discovery, Natalia anxiously monitors her daughter's condition. Who knows what terrible truth the teenager is hiding from her? It would be worth having a heart-to-heart conversation here, but the mother has her own method.

Colleagues are mentally preparing Maria Pavlovna for an unusual corporate event. Instead of a glass of cognac, bird's milk and everyday conversations, everyone has to be involved in the board game "Mordasia", developed by the historian. And while the math teacher is trying to figure out if the courtesan's card is offensive to her, another performance is being played out at the table, which the teachers don't even know about.