The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

Based on the novel of the same name by Judah Waten. Beth Tyson is killed in his mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell, and Detective Filbert have three different versions of this crime...

The film unobtrusively, but rather sadly, reveals to the viewer what it means to love the land, the village, the collective farm and fellow villagers who seek to leave for the city at the first opportunity...