Life of three friends - Aram, Ruben, and Gohar - who went from Armenia to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to study just as World War II started. Severe life lessons change the frivolous Ruben.
After graduating from the institute, one of the two friends of different profiles, Levon, will go to work in the distant mines, and the incumbent Karlen takes the chair of the head, but this does not bring him happiness.
Manas is hired to work for master Tatos till the spring, "when the cuckoo will call". There is one condition of the contract: if anyone of them gets annoyed with another, he loses everything. Unable to stand the day-and-night work for stingy master, Manas leaves without a pense of salary for months...
