[2][3][4] The film told a love story with the music of five operas: Bizet's Carmen, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Rimskyorsakov's May Night, Borodin's Prince Igor and Flotow's Martha.
[5][6] The film tells about the taxi driver Petya Govorkov, who rehearses Lensky's role in the local opera house.
His talents are highly appreciated by the elderly singer and conductor Makedonsky, but because Petya leaves to study at the conservatoire, he quarrels with his girlfriend.
[7] In 1947 T. O. McCreadie and his brother Alec arranged for it to be dubbed into English by Australian actors after it was released under the title Memory's Harvest.
"[11] The Sydney Morning Herald thought "the Australian dialogue is a notable technical achievement" although felt April Ledie "occasionally sounds too much like a debutante for the proletarian role of the film.