The events take place in 1919 in Bessarabia.

Nurse Yuliya and her husband Radu live happily, and the only thing they miss is children. Out of her kindness, Yuliya settled a new employee, Vera, in the house, who was experiencing a breakup with a loved one. It seemed that nothing could interfere with family happiness, but as luck would have it, Radu was bewitched by the beauty of Vera.

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

During the lunch break, the construction girls invite the pianist Marina to their roof. They talk about their dreams, about happiness. Marina will have her first concert soon. When she returned to her room and sat down at the piano, passersby stopped outside her window to listen to music.

One can achieve a free life only in an irreconcilable struggle against the class enemy. With this slogan, after being wounded, Mikhail returns from the civil war to one of the Moldovan villages, creates a Council of the Poor and makes the first decision — to plow the landlords' lands... The film takes place in the spring of 1917.

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.

The fates of two women: Ilinka, a member of the partisan movement, the mother of two adopted children; Varvara— the chairman of the collective farm, secretary of the district party committee...

Old friends, former front—line soldiers, suddenly quarreled in earnest: Peter Sorbu, the head of the carpet factory construction, quite sincerely believes that the factory should be built first, and the town for workers is the second thing; architect Anton Grecu also sincerely does not understand how people will fulfill the plan if they have nowhere to live, and in the end defends the priority construction of the town.

The director's autobiographical film about a distant hungry childhood after the war, where his mother became the main character...

A demobilized soldier, Călin Șaptefraț, returns to his war-torn Moldovan village. Before the war, he was the district champion in the traditional Moldovan wrestling, and now, despite his injuries, he is determined to revive the village’s sporting life. His energy and determination inspire many of his fellow villagers...