A chance meeting between Ivan Balashov, an old Muscovite, and an 18-year-old Georgian boy who has come from a village in Adjara to enter university becomes the beginning of a great friendship.
Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love.
At the beginning of the People's Revolution of 1921, it tells about the friendship between Bold, a herdsman, and Mikhail, a Russian boatman, who live on the banks of a river near the border. Two old men who took part in the revolution will be killed by the enemy, but their children will live on....
Formerly a squadron commander, the hero worked at the small airfield for many years. Komesk - as his colleagues call him in a friendly manner - is now retired. Every day with his little granddaughter Zaya, Komesk comes to the airfield - and it often happens that the decision of the entire team...
Strategical factory should be evacuated. The movie shows how destinies of those working on the factory and their families are being broken. And yet - they have no choice, but to live.