[2] Vasily Kuzyakin (Alexander Mikhailov), a forestry worker who is fond of pigeon breeding, lives in the countryside with his wife Nadezhda (Nina Doroshina) and their three children: eldest daughter Lyudka (Yanina Lisovskaya), who left for the city, but returned to the village after an unsuccessful marriage; son Lyonka (Igor Lyakh), a cheerful fellow who loved technology; and the youngest daughter, Olya (Lada Sizonenko), the favorite of her father.

Nadezhda, a woman who was rather grumpy, considers her husband frivolous because he spends family money to buy expensive pigeons and constantly reproaches him for these purchases.

An elderly couple lives next door to the Kuzyakins — baba Shura (Natalya Tenyakova) and uncle Mitya (Sergey Yursky), in whose family there are constant conflicts.

Therefore, he uses every opportunity to keep his drinking secret from his strict wife (e.g. he arranges an impromptu funeral feast for her, although she did not die).

At the resort, he meets Raisa Zakharovna (Lyudmila Gurchenko), an employee of the personnel department of the forestry enterprise in which Vasily works.

This city dweller, a flighty and exalted lady, fascinates Vasily with her amazing stories about psychics, telekinesis, astral bodies, and humanoids.

On the same stormy evening, Raisa Zakharovna herself pays a visit to the Kuzyakins, hoping to find an agreeable arrangement and settle everything in peace.

At the same time, the life together of Raisa and Vasily living together in harmony does not work out because they are people of "different social strata."

For Nadezhda it is the third day, she lies sad on the bed; the children, Uncle Mitya and Baba Shura are trying to comfort her.