A film about the friendship between the workers of the Uzbek collective farm 'Leningrad' and the city of Lenin. This friendship has grown stronger and developed over more than four decades. The film takes us back to the distant and difficult 1920s, when the farmers of Fergana sent a wagon of fruits to the workers of the Putilov factory. In return, the workers gifted the collective farm two tractors and sent their representatives to help set up the new machinery.

Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third. But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.

The poet Habib is writing a poem about the Uzbek steppe. But his creativity is hindered by conflicts at work and at home.