A young agronomist dreams of developing a new early-ripening variety of corn. Despite difficulties and comic situations, he not only succeeds in his plans, he finds his love.
Zalina, a young irrigation expert, arrives at a collective farm in North Ossetia and gets caught up in a romantic entanglement.
Two poor people, Ossetian and Ingush, are fighting each other over a meter of land in the mountains. A revolution begins, and their younger brothers become brother-friends.
