Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

Schoolboy Igor dreams of becoming a naval officer. But his father, a captain second rank, dreams of a musical career for his son. When the family moved to one of the northern islands, Igor organized a choir at school and became its leader. One day, the boy was hurt, and he began to doubt his abilities. But the arts competition in Murmansk, where he successfully performed in place of the soloist who had lost his voice, restored the dreamer's faith in his talent.

Mother Maria Skobtsova, a Russian nun, helps Jews and other people hated by the Gestapo during World War II. Eventually, the Gestapo finds out and takes her away to the Ravensbruk Concentration Camp.

The story is about old village residents who, due to the expansion of the collective farm, have to leave their huts and their homes.

Alla and Igor decide to get married. It is the second marriage for both of them. Resentment towards her ex-husband, who is busy with science and indifferent to everyday problems, has embittered Alla. She is sure that he and his parents want to take away her child. In her anger she does not notice that she is unfair to her loved ones and makes her son unhappy.

The story about the first day of reception on personal issues of the deputy of the District Council, young worker Timofey Zuikov.

Gelsomino finds himself in a topsy-turvy "land of liars," where red is green, bread is ink, and dogs meow.

Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother.

An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.

One day, third grade students received “invitation cards” with amazing content: “Dear friend, inhabitant of planet Earth! If you want to meet people of another civilization, come to the dance floor in the old park tonight”. This meeting, of course, did not take place, but there was a reason for good fun and interesting conversation...