Aleksandr Olkov

Aviation engineer Viktor Rosanov dreams of getting behind the controls of an airplane - he is sure that this is the only way he can realize his capabilities. The plant's management sends Rosanov to the North and instructs him to prepare a new aircraft for flights. He performs the task brilliantly, and when he returns, he is appointed head of the airport and is included in the flight crew lists. But now Victor is not sure that heaven is the only way of his life.

Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.

Machine tool fitter Ivan Mityushkin arrives to work in a small taiga village. After traveling through several cities and seeing a lot, the young man decides to drop anchor in a quiet harbor and live a quiet family life. Ivan falls in love with a young widow, Tatyana, and wants to marry her. Mityushkin manages to win over his beloved's six-year-old son and even befriends the boy. However, the woman is uncooperative. The fact is that Tatyana cannot forget her deceased husband, whom she loved dearly.