Proffesional thief called "Sharks" escapes from the prison and tries to continue his thieving craft. But for this he needs the help of old friends. However, time has passed and none of them wants to remember the past and once again embark on a slippery slope. One of them - Innokenty Stepanov (Yuri Sarantsev) works in the Komsomol team on construction site.

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 ...

Screen adaptation of the novel by Yuri Bondarev. The demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Suddenly, according to the neighbor’s slanderous denunciation, his father is arrested — and Sergei, as the son of an “enemy of the people," is expelled from the party and institute. The guy goes to Kazakhstan, works at a construction site. He has many loyal friends and believes in justice...

Based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Fedin. 1910. A small town in the Volga region. Kirill Izvekov, a student of a technical school, is only looking for his place in life, and revolutionary struggle is unfolding around him.

1976 film by Vladimir Basov

十七岁的玛利亚（瓦莲京娜·季托娃 Valentina Titova 饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的千金小姐，从小过着养尊处优的富足生活。这样的她，偏偏爱上了一穷二白的青年弗拉基米尔（奥列格·维多夫 Oleg Vidov 饰），这段门不当户不对的恋情自然收到了玛利亚家人的强烈反对，可这对恋人的真爱战胜了一切，他们决定私奔。 哪知道在私奔当夜，当地下起了暴风雪，到处都是白茫茫的一片，在恶劣的天气中，弗拉基米尔迷路了。当他最终到达了和玛利亚约定的汇合地点时，已经是第二天早上了，那里早已经不见了心上人的踪影。伤心的弗拉基米尔加入了部队，并且最终在战场上结束了短暂的一生。