Aleksandr Kovalyov

In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape from the criminals who hunt for compromising photos. But the ex-wife is there not by chance — she is the mistress of one of the kidnappers. But with an unusual date, the former feelings take over, the lovers decide to deceive the bandits and go on the run.

The action takes place in the early 1950s. The endless meetings of the rural district party committee occupy almost all of the simple collective farmers' time, preventing them from working and solving their everyday problems...

Fate brings the heroine together with different men, but her novels are unhappy: one lover returns to his homeland in Egypt, the other dies in a car accident. There is still hope for a third. Maybe we'll get lucky with him?..

The workers fight for their rights creating independent union. They know that it is the only way to struggle against the owners of the plant.