A common Bulgarian family spends a warm afternoon in the fall in a country house. The preparations for a dinner party are in full swing. The formal reason is that the son enlists in the Army and the real reason is to arrange a match between him and the daughter of the boss. All the schemes are frustrated as it turns out that the boy has already married another girl. Both the hosts and the guests lose control, unleashing a consecution of tragic or comic situations.

This is a film about the fate of a group of students and their wondering to find their true place in life. Of course each of them tries to find his own way.

In the last moments of his life, the writer turns over episodes from his past. He finds the cause of another death, ahead of the last breath.

A young engineer arrives in a small provincial town and falls in with a traffic police inspector, a driving instructor, and a cannery-engineering manager. From sheer boredom, the inspector tickets a driver who has not broken the regulations. The driving instructor takes advantage of his position to seduce one of his students. To kill time, the engineering manager spends his time intriguing. These passions seem to be all that the three of them live for.

The teenager was admitted to a specialized school for children with lung diseases. The teacher deliberately opposes the newcomer to the present time leader. This causes tension among children. The conflict worsens when a new boy tries to gain the trust of the collective by dishonest means.