After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North. There she creates a new family and, years later, calls the matured girl back. Not finding love in her mother's house, Olga left for a Siberian construction site with the plumber Roman. But the first difficulties frightened him, and he left her, never knowing that Olga was expecting a child.

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommissar hides among the artists.

A story about the beginning of life. Having lost their parents early, Alyosha and Nadya were not left alone - the father’s friend and the people around them helped the children remain kind and open in this difficult world of adults ...

The adopted daughter of Dr. Skvortsov, Tanya, having learned that her mother Natalya Avdeyevna is alive, who was considered dead during the bombing of World War II, decides to go to her in a distant village on vacation. She recognizes the woman who gave her life and lost her husband and sons due to the war, but cannot call her mother. Meetings on the collective farm with interesting people make Tanya think a lot and experience a lot. She discovers for herself a completely new, largely alien world to her. It does not immediately penetrate the sense of inner kinship with this world, its people, so unusual for her.