Far East. 70th years. A small garrison on the border with China. Here, as everywhere, there are men and women. Everyone has his own story, his own destiny, his own love. The common thing is that they all came here once on duty and stayed for a long time. Marina Goloshchekina is nice, kind, right....
A girl with a secret assignment arrives in a provincial town, where she meets a scavenger, who in the evening turns out to be an elegant and ironic respectable gentleman. A mutual interest arises between them, and they begin to play the game, trying to guess each other's past.
The story is about a pair of old romantic socks who dreamed of flying like birds. Socks were thrown out of the window when life became unbearable, and went wandering the streets. Fate scattered them to different parts of the Big City, and they turned into ragged, unnecessary rags. The socks sought...