Everything is behind him: fleeing from Nazi-occupied Estonia to Germany, searching for work in foreign cities, and his own crimes.... Everything is realized and decided - it is necessary to return. But when he returned, he found neither home nor relatives. His father's friend, the leader of a gang of nationalists, told him about his difficult past. Joining his gang, the hero decides to take revenge ...

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape.

Dmitry Gorin is awaiting the post of branch manager of a savings bank. But one day he accidentally gives an extra amount to a person who works in the taiga on the construction of the Siberia-Ural power transmission line. To return the money, Dmitry has to go to the taiga. But he is not in a hurry to return to Moscow. The fact is that he discovers a completely different life, which he likes, and meets the girl he dreamed of

Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.