Ordinary village house where an old Russian oven peacefully coexists with a gas stove.

Nadezhda is not home she lives in the city and found there seemed to be their happiness, and the yard runs her six-year-old son Sergei.

And in the morning at Rozhnov care: Harvest, he is the chief inspector of grain on the farm, and on its efficiency depends on the fate of the crop.

Man Fyodor ordinary, nothing outstanding, but for some reason people are drawn to him, go to share their joys and sorrows.

Job Fyodor Vasilyevich bustling, from it depends largely on the harvest, and then it will shut off the electricity, the machine is not enough.

And remembered that terrible battle, when the roof caved in their position of German tanks and infantry.

IX All-Union Film Festival — Best Screenplay; Second prize for Best Actor (Nikolai Pastukhov).