The Homeless Woman (Bomzhikha)

Tatyana is a forty-five year old teacher from Moscow who borrows a large sum of money to pay for her sick mother’s operation. Sadly her mother dies, and Tatyana soon finds herself plunged into debt. Her financial situation spirals further out of control when she is ill advised by her friends to set up a cake stall at the local market, a venture, which, not surprisingly, fails. Tatyana is forced to sell her apartment and, after an argument with her niece with whom she has been staying, Tatyana is left with no job and nowhere to live.
Just as she begins to feel really desperate, Tatyana is hired as a cashier in a nearby supermarket, and her luck slowly begins to change. The owner takes pity on her and allows her to live in a small room at the back of the shop, and it is there that she meets Anton, a young boy who is shoplifting to get his father’s attention. Tatyana feels genuinely sorry for Anton and, instead of reporting him to the police, decides to help him. They begin studying together after school and, after striking up a true friendship, Anton persuades his father to hire Tatyana as a housekeeper and his tutor. Anton’s father, amazed at the change in his son, readily agrees, however, his jealous lover wants Tatyana out of their lives and tries to frame her for theft. Fortunately Anton discovers her plan just in time and reveals her deceitfulness to his father, who immediately throws her out.
Tatyana by now has fallen in love with Anton’s father, but he is yet to notice her as a woman. This happens one day when he buys her a dress as a thank you present for taking his son to a concert on her day off. Finally he sees Tatyana as the attractive, intelligent and elegant woman that he has been searching for.

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Tatyana Nikolaevna Titova - shkolnaya uchitelnitsa matematiki. Leto. Kanikuly. A ona vynuzhdena iskat podrabotku – nuzhno otdavat dolg za operatsiyu mame. Sosed sovetuet vzyat v arendu mini-pekarnyu. I pervyy zhe den prinosit Titovoy pribyl! No… na zavtra ee larek ischezaet. Teper na uchitelnitse uzhe dva dolga – za operatsiyu i mini-pekarnyu. Tatyane Nikolaevne nichego ne ostaetsya, kak prodat svoyu kvartiru. Iz vyruchennyh deneg ona rasplachivaetsya s kreditorami, a na ostatok summy sobiraetsya priobresti komnatu v kommunalke. Poka rieltery, yakoby, ishchut dlya nee varianty, Titova zhivet u plemyannitsy. Tut ee nastigaet eshche odna beda – sozhitel plemyannitsy voruet u nee dengi! Tatyana Nikolaevna ustraivaetsya rabotat uborshchitsey v supermarket, gde i nochuet v kompanii so shvabrami i vedrami. Sluchayno ona znakomitsya s Antonom – 14-letnim synom bogatogo biznesmena Rusakova. Malchik lishen roditelskogo tepla: ego mama umerla, a nemolodoy otets ( kak voditsya) nashel uteshenie v molodoy, no stervoznoy zhene! I Anton vydumyvaet vsyakie gluposti (vorovstvo v supermarkete, naprimer!), chtoby privlech vnimanie ottsa. Titova znakomitsya s Antonom, nahodit s nim obshchiy yazyk i vskore, blagodarya usiliyam malchika, okazyvaetsya v dome Rusakova na pravah domrabotnitsy. I vse by nichego, no molodaya zhena «kozhey chuvstvuet» v ney, 45-letney «zamarashke», sopernitsu i obvinyaet v vorovstve, podbrosiv bulavku s brilliantom. Obizhennaya uchitelnitsa pokidaet dom Rusakova. No vskore spravedlivost torzhestvuet: obmanshchitsa iz doma izgnana, a bednaya uchitelnitsa, priodevshis i prichesavshis, okonchatelno plenyaet serdtse bogatogo biznesmena!