Nikolai Kurkov, a Muscovite, worked at a research institute and dreamed of defending his thesis on agrobiology, but when he arrived in one of the villages of the Non-Chernozem region, he met a childhood friend and stayed, heading a lagging collective farm...

The always easy-going, sensitive and responsive hero of the film turns out to be the very person whose meeting with whom changes the fate of people for the better.

A second of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

A murderer is using every possible trick in his efforts to escape from justice. He is extremely crafty in his ways of infiltrating the government. He becomes a politician with growing status and influence and an official immunity from prosecution.