Nelli Popova

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

One day, Tamara went out to throw out the garbage and met Pasha at the entrance with a bottle of wine and a desire to talk. After a visit, the man gets into the apartment of a new acquaintance, and she tells him how much she loves her husband Lenechka, who took her "rejected" from the village, planted her at home for a sewing machine and called "gupeshka" - in honor of an aquarium fish, submissive , silent, unwittingly devoted to the owner.

How did it happen that the wife of a candidate for governor, a provincial Russian nobleman and a big admirer of beauty, put the wrong ballet, or Swan Lake, for his election ?! Why did she get locals, old people, marginals and freaks, and not professionals of the right proportions? The former teacher with his freedom-loving thoughts is to blame. After all, old love does not rust, and flowers bloom on the asphalt.