Aleksandr Markov

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyone, a stranger.

The hero of the film is Vasily Zavyalov, a Siberian, the headmaster of the school in Turgus, where he was born and grew up. We have an army and a pedagogical institute behind us. The rural communists respect him and elect him secretary of the district party committee...

About the forestry scientist Ivan Vikhrov, who devoted his life to the forest and the fight against the fact that “forestry is turning into ordinary forest management.”