Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way.
By order of General Sytko, a rock ridge explodes during the construction of an important strategic facility in the desert, leading to human casualties. And now General Nesterov will have to mobilize people in the difficult conditions that have arisen and cope with the task in a short time.
The young landowner Astakhov comes to check the affairs of his distant estate. He meets his neighbors and among them two young girls. The arrival of Astakhov destroys the calm of the usual estate life.
Three boys and a girl go to another city to search for the father of one of them in order to get money from him as compensation for leaving the family. On the way they meet the homeless man Petrovich, and this meeting makes them think about many things.
The young teacher Lobanovich, who has just graduated from the seminary, comes to the remote Polessky village of Telshino to teach the peasant children to read and write. In the heads of seminarians persistently hammered into the idea that the Tsar-father endlessly cares about the common people, and...
The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle “you - for me, I - for you” has not yet been approved by the car depot team...