About the life of military pilots, their friendship, and dedication to their profession. The plot is based on the transfer of an aviation regiment from a small town in the Arctic.
Alexei Gorokhov, a village boy, is known as an oddball and a madman. He is full of unbelievable ideas that make his fellow villagers laugh, but they turn out to be not so absurd: potatoes planted in nets yielded a bountiful harvest; a piglet taken for "education" turned into a good pig; and a well...