A comedy about how a single telegram can mess things up.

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

Back in the thirties, Anton Lutenko was forced to leave Lviv and seek success abroad. His wife died during the war, and his daughter Tanya went missing. Anton found the job he dreamed of abroad and became a famous coach. Italian Julia became his impresario, friend and wife. One day, Anton was brought a Soviet magazine, on the cover of which was a young gymnast, master of sports Tatiana Lutsenko. Anton is flying to Kiev with a team of Italian gymnasts. Exciting days of happy experiences and meetings are ahead...

Based on the play The Gypsy Azza by Mykhailo Starytsky. The gypsy Vasyl falls in love with the Ukrainian beauty Halia. He forgets his nomadic life, his mother, and the gypsy Azza, and decides to stay in the village for Halia’s sake. Halia, against her father’s wishes, marries Vasyl. But time will pass, and Vasyl will begin to long for the camp.

A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kiev. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory.