Sergei Bukreyev arrives with a team of meliorators in another village and immediately draws attention to the director of the farm Anna Talnikova. Her dedication to work scares Sergei, he even wants to persuade her to leave the farm, but understands that Anna will never be happy without her work, and he – without it.

A young and ambitious engineer comes into conflict with old-fashioned structures that don't acknowledge his honesty.

The Great Patriotic War. Death in the whistle of every bullet, every shell. Burning buildings, hungry people in the basement. How many people passed through the land of fire - patient, courageous, silent. Cameraman Vladimir Sushkov walked next to them, creating a harsh tale of those who were and were not in the war ...

Agronomist Valya Chernysheva fell in love with the new chief agronomist of the MTS Savitsky, a widower with two small daughters. During the illness of one of the daughters, whom Valya was nursing, he realized that she had become a close person for him. But the girl left to work in another distant collective farm.

The plot structure of the film is based on a commonplace situation from the practice of foreign trade organizations - the conclusion of a trade agreement with a foreign company.

A film comedy about the everyday life of a never-dull young taxi driver, Sergei Nikitin, who, having gone to work in a taxi fleet, receives a "Moskvich" written off due to its unsuitability as a "test" and goes on his first trip around his favorite city; about his readiness to always come to the aid of people.

The film tells about the complex relationship between two chemical scientists. Viktor Sviridov arrived from the province, where he works as an engineer at one of the factories, at the metropolitan institute in order to defend his project related to an urgent scientific problem. However, without the support of a longtime friend Alexei Grekov, he has no chance: most members of the academic council are opposed to his project and himself. But Grekov is also forced to choose between his wife's scientific career and obligations to another.

The doctor hides the death of the dog from Serezha and gives the boy a new friend. A poignant story of loyalty and friendship.

Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.