The film is about the youth who joined the ranks of the Komsomol in the early 1920s. The protagonists of the film are residents of a small town in southern Russia.

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.

Galina, the daughter of the manager of the city branch of the State Bank Roman Stepanovich Kruchi, and brought up by him alone from the age of three, is marrying the furniture factory director Andrei Tur. It turns out that Andrey, having received a bank loan for the plant, cannot return it on time, since the plant produced defective products that were not accepted by the customer. Andrey is removed from work and together with Galina he leaves for a new place of work.