Young doctor Irina Mikhaylovna works in Soviet province and has to hire ex-con Lyuba as baby tender for her daughter. When anti-Semitic company starts in Soviet Union and danger is threatening Irina, Lyuba stays her only devoted friend.
A problem family gets a visit from social service workers and a reporter who come to take a little girl to the orphanage from her mother in case she turns out to be drunk again.
The first year of the war. Two sisters work at the plant. One of them arrested her husband for escaping from captivity. The other is in the hands of a list with the names of those who should be fired from the factory. In it and surname of the sister. The woman has to make a choice.
