The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

Rural doctor Ivan Boyko receives an invitation to a clinic in the capital. Here the hero meets an institute friend, Dmitry Kostenko, a successful associate professor. Very soon Ivan becomes convinced of the moral dishonesty of Dmitry, who appropriated the scientific work of his modest colleague Vennik. Boyko exposes the dishonest candidate of sciences to the team.