Nina Geyts

Returning to his native village at the end of his military service, Victor (Yuri Sarantsev) brought his bride into the house - and soon they got married. Victor works on the collective farm with great enthusiasm, he is appointed a foreman, but the happiness of old Danila, Victor’s father, is overshadowed by dirty gossip - as if Victor’s father is not he, but Shandybovich, whose unseemly deeds were recently exposed by Victor.

The respected chairman Yakov Rusak, upon retiring, nominates his son Alexei, who has graduated from university and defended his dissertation, as his successor. However, the younger Rusak, who has his own vision for restructuring his village, does not intend to continue his father's traditions in leading the collective farm...