The train waitress decides not to travel around the world anymore, but to raise her son from boarding school and be with her loved one, the local theater director in native Ferzinki.

Boxer Gennady Stakhov comes to his fiancée - a tenth-grader Maya - to meet her parents. But there he meets Lida, Maya's older sister, with whom he once had an affair. And now the boxer's successes and failures are at the mercy of old love.

The problems of the soviet school system: A Mother, tired and stupefied by her two sons. A stepfather, who could not care less. A teacher, who is trying to reach the heart of every student, those guys who do not know, where to put their energy ...

At forty-five, a writer decides to change his life and devote himself entirely to his art. Leaving behind a troubled family, he moves into an abandoned house…