The darkness of the village people, the negligence of the Vingai family in the household, laziness at work, rude communication with each other.

A policeman is investigating a murder in a secret research facility.

The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.