A literary teacher Antonina Sergeevna goes to work at an elite physical and mathematical lyceum from a regular school. She is surprised to see how respectful the students are here - as to full-fledged creative personalities. Soon she begins an affair with a young school principal - a talented physicist, candidate of science. But the euphoria of the first months of communication with students is replaced by disappointment - her pets turn out to be cold, rational people, almost indifferent to the beautiful ...

The war separated the young couple, Olga and Victor. After the war, Viktor Borodin, considering his wife long dead, remarried. The new couple considered themselves happy until Victor met Olga again.

During a WWII a duel starts between Soviet war ship and Nazi submarine.

Intrigues are growing in the research institute...

The film is set in old Yuzovka on the eve of 1905. After searching the Kolchugins' apartment, where money from the strike fund was hidden, the police arrest Anna Kolchugina and her lodger, the miner and revolutionary Kuzma. Anna's teenage son, Stepan, is forced to go to work in the mine. There he learns about the existence of the revolutionary underground and joins its struggle.

A story of eleven years old Mikolka and his adventures during October Revolution.

A group of resistance members are fighting Germans in the occupied Minsk during WWII.