One story follows Elsa Kalnyn (Anda Zaice), a young dentist who moves from Riga to work in the Virgin Lands after graduating from medical school.

Facing challenges such as the lack of a proper office and dental chair in the state farm’s medical post, Elsa sets off on an adventurous trip to the district center of Aryk to procure the necessary equipment.

Alyonka herself recounts a humorous episode where she decided to earn five failing grades at school, nearly driving her kind and elderly teacher, Vitaminych (Erast Garin), to despair.

Another tale features Lida (Maya Menglet), a city girl from Moscow, who grows bored with life on a Komsomol construction site in Belogorsk, where her tractor-driver husband, Stepan Revun (Vasily Shukshin), had taken her.

The couple moves to the Virgin Lands, but their marital struggles persist, further complicated by the absence of a registry office (ZAGS) in the state farm.