The hero of the film, a Komsomol member of a large youth construction site, decides whether it is possible to sacrifice people's lives in the name of a great goal.

A kind of film mosaic, composed of 13 separate short stories. All together they tell about one day in the life of people who are next to us in a large port city.

Zhenya Golubeva is a Muscovite who graduated from a construction institute and left for a big construction site in Siberia together with other graduates of IISI. Her and her friends‘ fates will turn out differently.

Appointed to the position of the foundry's head, Sergei Ilyin puts forward a plan for reorganizing the work to the plant management. These proposals have both their supporters and opponents.

A TV film based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Fedin. The film is set in a small provincial town on the Volga River in the pre-revolutionary era. The story centers on Kirill Izvekov, an 18-year-old student at a technical college. The young man is just entering adulthood. He is full of hope and is making his first, as yet not fully conscious, attempts to find his place in his future life. What awaits him in the future? How will his fate and the fate of those around him unfold?

About life in the Russian city of Saratov in 1919 during the Russian Civil War.

Two friends are fencing together but have a different opinions about sport and a way to achieve victories.

Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him.

The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.