Against all better judgement (Vopreki zdravomu smyslu) (Oprovergaia Evclida)

Marina, a successful landscape designer is about to be married. However, the day before she is due to introduce her fiancé to her rich and influential father, they quarrel and she accidentally locks herself out of her flat. Luckily for her a passer-by Bogdan comes to her rescue. Realising that he could be the solution to her other dilemma, Marina asks him if he would be willing to pose as her fianc and meet her father. He refuses, suddenly realising that he has become very attracted to Marina, but does not want her or her family to find out that he has just been released from prison.
Marina decides to take a break from love and concentrate on her work. She wins a huge commission from Sergey, a wealthy and successful businessman, who falls in love and proposes to her. Marina, however, is unsure, and it is about this time that Sergey is visited by an old friend from the army who had saved his life a few years ago. Marina is surprised to discover that the friend is none other than Bogdan, who himself is also surprised that his feelings for Marina are still very strong.
While Sergey is away on a business trip, Bogdan throws a surprise birthday party for Marina introducing her to the guests as his bride. However, when Sergey returns unexpectedly with his new business partner and Marina’s father, Ivan Petrovich, he is furious with Bogdan’s behaviour, and in a fit of anger challenges him to a duel. When one of the bullets accidentally hits Ivan, the obvious suspect is Bogdan.


Marina – uspeshnaya biznes-ledi, spetsialist po landshaftnomu dizajnu. Bolee togo, ona – doch zamministra stroitelstva. I – schastlivaya nevesta. Vse skladyvaetsya prosto zamechatelno. No vot Marina zastaet zheniha v pikantnoj situatsii s fotomodelyu i ...otmenyaet svadbu. CHtoby otvlechsya, ona soglashaetsya vypolnit zakaz svoego starogo znakomogo Sergeya Barinova - nynche vladeltsa krupnoj stroitelnoj firmy. Tot nachinaet aktivno uhazhivat za Marinoj, no - bezuspeshno. V eto zhe vremya devushka znakomitsya s byvshim zaklyuchennym Bogdanom. On - byvshij kompanon Barinova – v svoe vremya spas Sergeya ot smerti, a sam sel na 9 let v tyurmu za ubijstvo. Barinovu togda dostalsya ves ih sovmestnyj biznes, poetomu sejchas Bogdan raschityvaet na polovinu nyneshnego kapitala biznesmena. Barinovu eto, estestvenno, ne nravitsya. Bolee togo, mezhdu Marinoj i Bogdanom zavyazyvayutsya nezhnye otnosheniya, chto esche bolshe razdrazhaet Barinova. On pytaetsya unizit i prognat Bogdana. Vo vremya draki voznikaet pistolet Sergeya, iz kotorogo tot ranit poyavivshegosya ottsa Mariny. No Barinov obvinyaet vo vsem Bogdana, i tomu grozit novoe zaklyuchenie.