[2][3] Ivan Brovkin completes military service with the rank of sergeant, and with a group of friends decides to go after demobilization to the developed virgin lands.

He arrives to his native kolkhoz and is greeted by a cool reception: the collective farm chairman, bride Lyubasha and her mother regard him as traitor.

Director of the farm knows this, and wishing to keep a valuable employee insistently recommends him to build a house.

Zahar Silich comes to the sovkhoz to pick up his bride Polina (who has also left for the virgin lands) home.

After the harvest, Zahar Silich with his wife and Ivan Brovkin come to visit their native village for a short time.