Lidiya Menshova

A dramatic story of a progressive journalist in America, whose professional honor depends entirely on a handful of political gangsters.

The student rowing team of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) was defeated in the competition. The coach drops the team and leaves, taking the best rowers with him. The remaining athletes decide to assemble a new team, and the management of the institute appoints a new coach for them — a teacher of hydrodynamics.