Galina Zhilko

An adult man is recalling his childhood years in North Russia during WWII.

The builders of the metallurgical plant and the new city of Nowa Huta were invited to appear on television in the “Yesterday – Today” program to tell how it all began. So, having arrived at the great construction site of socialism, in a village called Mogila, the builders were greeted by “clay, dirt and dog housing on wet ground.” It was a difficult time. But years passed, the plant was built, a new exemplary socialist city of metallurgists grew...

Moscow outskirts, spring 1956. In memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the movie, the son of the political prisoner, this time will remain forever. He meets and loses his first love, encounters with blunt brutality of the criminal world, to bid farewell to childhood, to regain his father...