The action takes place in Germany and Russia and tells about the events of the First World War, the Revolution and the Civil War. The main character, the artist Andrei Startsev, has to go through a lot before he finds his place in the new world.

Based on stories by Yuri Trifonov. The film consists of three novellas about sports life: "Alesha's Acquaintance," "The Telegram," and "Victory is Awarded..."

Inspector Sergey Baev arrives at a fishing collective farm for a new job and begins to fight poaching. This does not please both poachers and the head of the artel Fetisov. Having failed to reach a compromise solution, Fetisov sends the Ermakov brothers to "deal" with the new inspector. But the intervention of the police stops the fight, and the criminals receive the punishment they deserve.

Pashka Girya and Valka Komarov, cadets of the school of military musicians, tired of strict discipline, ran away to the south. Having experienced a number of adventures and meetings with interesting people, the heroes judiciously assessed their deed and returned to school.

Forty-year-old surgeon Alexey Shulgin, considering himself a loser, is going to leave the Far North. But after all, every person at least once in their life comes a moment when they need to show everything they are capable of. Such a moment for Shulgin was the call aboard the patrol ship. An accident happened there - a broken cable seriously injured a sailor.

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders...

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

The film tells about the childhood and youth of the wife, friend and military ally of the founder of the country of the Soviets Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya. The main attention in the film is paid to the participation of a young revolutionary in the organization of the struggle of the workers of St. Petersburg for their rights, against the autocracy.