The film tells the story of a woman, Natalka Nechay, who works as a rolling mill operator. Her personal life hasn't worked out — she's separated from her husband. Her adult children are also facing difficulties: her son has divorced his wife, and her daughter, who is supposed to be preparing for her exams, has decided to get married...

Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s unfinished novella. At the end of the 19th century, a Ukrainian boy, Petro, is torn from his home and beloved and conscripted into the Russian army.