The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But then a crazy idea strikes them - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last years of their lives. The oldies are wise enough at organizing this event and now real adventures begin.

At 30, Margarita seems to have everything—a good career, a job, an apartment, and loyal friends—but she is still unmarried. When her friend sets out to find her a suitable husband, Margarita tests the candidates by pretending to be a single mother raising two children borrowed from her friend. But when she falls in love with a young pilot named Imants, fiction turns into reality after her sister dies in a car accident, leaving Margarita to take in and care for her sister’s two children.