Eighteen-year-old girl Alena decides to meet her biological father. Vasily, a veteran of the First Chechen War, lives alone and works as a switchman on the railroad. The arrival of his daughter completely changes the life of the hero.
The year is 1994. One year, from spring to spring, from the life of the courtyard of an ordinary five–storey building of pre-war Grozny is the last peaceful year on the eve of a terrible war, during which the life of every resident will change forever.
