Despite its strong endorsement of communist ideology, the film was fiercely attacked in Pravda and withdrawn from release.
[1] Sergey Paromov requests permission from the rector, Babinov, to hold a farewell evening at the medical institute.
During the event, the secretary of the Komsomol, Ognerubov, unexpectedly appears, promoting "distorted values" to the students in the spirit of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
However, at a decisive Komsomol meeting, Natasha's sister Nina speaks out, revealing Ognerubov's immoral behavior: he had abandoned her with a child several years earlier.
The film culminates in Sergei Paromov’s speech about the moral character of a Komsomol member.