The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions.

How to save the village? How to keep people in it? How to manage the land adjacent to large construction sites? The last inhabitants of the village are trying to solve these problems.

A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War.

The film raises acute issues in construction, where, back in the 1970s, all the social shortcomings of large-scale but short-term production projects were concentrated: premature completion of projects, mismanagement, weak control, theft, and fraud.

By chance, two middle-aged people met - the telephone operator of the hotel Lina and the chief engineer of the construction department Kirillov, who had arrived on official business from Leningrad in one of the provincial cities of the country. Behind everyone has setbacks in family life. A sincere feeling that brought two lonely people closer together helped to see those around them in a new way. They are already over forty. Both are lonely. Having met by chance and fell in love with each other, they never became happy.

A criminal tries to regain the trust of fellow citizens after the release from prison.