What Does a Person Need?

After graduating from high school and failing the exams at the medical institute, and then at the theater school, Elvira, at her mother's insistence, is hired as a nurse to the sick mother of her neighbor Sergei Sergeevich, an associate professor at the archaeological institute. The planned affection of the institute employee turned into a sincere friendship.

Archaeologists have found on the island of Eagle remnants of slave shackles. On the expedition, rumors of an old legend spread about the figure of Achilles, who sometimes appeared on the local rock, and who was helping the sailors to find a safe fairway in bad weather. The expedition after a long search finds nothing and moves out, but the leader decides to stay. And after a while, he discovers a mysterious state created by runaway slaves...

A melodrama about the ill-fated love between two young people in a Moldovan village. He is a communist, and she is a Jehovah's Witness who believes that their relationship is a sin.

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.