Introduction to Life (Russian: Вступление, romanized: Vstuplijenije) is a 1963 Soviet drama film about World War II seen through the eyes of a young boy from Leningrad.
In a train two youths, Volodya (Boris Tokarev) and Valya (Natalia Bogunova) returning from evacuation to Leningrad cross paths for a few minutes.
During the bombing of the evacuation train near the Mga station, dies the mother (Lyubov Sokolova) of Valya and her younger sister Lucy (Lida Volkova).
The unfavorable reputation of a "loose" woman, a baby girl born without a father, make her unable to rent decent accommodation.
The teen has a difficult time coping with his mother's unhappy personal life, and goes to Leningrad to his father, so that he would issue a due summons to the city from which the blockade was only recently lifted.