Day and Night

1944 Sergeant Vasily Kalina returns to his native village of Pastoron after the hospital. But he does not find the village: retreating, the Germans burned all the houses and mined the fields. The restoration of the economy is led by the former commander of the partisan detachment Grigory Gorovoy. He appoints Vasily as the chairman of the collective farm. Soon Kalina learns that Claudia, whom he loved before the war, considering him dead, married Gorovoy. The current situation is not an easy test for all three...

Doctor Vera Pavlovna Zanemonets has recently been working at the Genetics Research Institute and is thinking about her dissertation. Her life is quite prosperous: her favorite job, family. One day, on an urgent call, Vera goes to her sister, who lives in the village and needs urgent surgery after an accident. But there is no surgeon in the village hospital, and Vera decides to urgently operate on her sister.

Once, Maria's husband went to the city to work and did not return. She stayed with two children. For some time she was waiting and hoping for his return. Hope helped to transfer a heavy collective farm life. Twenty years passed and Ivan appeared in the village. But neither the wife nor the children who grew up without him recognized him as a native person.

A cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist.