Based on the novel of the same name by Grigory Svirsky. 1942 year. The Great Patriotic War. The navigator Bratnov was shot down during the war, was captured, fled, returned to his people, was demoted…
A new geography teacher, Maria Vladimirovna Nesterova, arrives in a rural village with her young daughter, Katya. They are given a ride by Fyodor Semyonovich Barinev, a local collective farm driver.