The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.

Tigran, the head of "kolkhoz", is working without strain, reckoning with the responsiveness and support of neighboring collective farms. To punish Tigran's dependency, his lover Anush, the head of Jeyranik collective farm, the first boycots him refusing to help. After being fired during the review meeting, Tigran recognizes his failure and goes for work in construction of local hydro-power station.

Arto's watch factory releases non-operating watches through the fault of the quality controller. One of these watches causes a lot of trouble for the family of his beloved, Armenuhi. A dinner in honor of the groom turns into a severe censure of a bad workman.