Irina, a small-town nurse, has a heart defect. According to the doctors' prognosis, her heart has not much time left to beat, and there is no one to take care of her six-year-old daughter Anna. Irina feverishly tries to find a way out and she gets the idea that Anya could be brought up by her grandfather - the father of the young man who left Irina pregnant. All she knows about her daughter's grandfather, Igor Vasilyevich Kutepov, is that he is a rather successful businessman and 63 years old.

Ignat began to drink, for which he was expelled from the Institute. He returns to his native County town, where there is nothing to do, all die of boredom. There is only one unmarried man — a local military Commissar. Ignat once annoy him, and the military Commissar promised to send him to the army. First Ignat runs from the military Commissar, and then suddenly they struck up a friendship, the military Commissar becomes a guy instead of his father, whom Ignat did not have... Then Ignat decides to go to the army, because he has absolutely nothing to do, but at the last moment he becomes afraid, and he goes to recover to the Institute…