American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
Lucy Ermakova works as a waitress in the officer's dining room of the flight garrison. Her son Valka dreams that he had a dad, and always a pilot. Lieutenant Colonel Ivchenko requires Lucy favor, because he helped her with the work, but the woman avoids it. She likes the catcher major. Once Valka runs away to the airfield and disappears. On searches of the child raise the whole garrison…
The tragic story of five people. A frivolous and sometimes cruel, promiscuous yet charming girl, acting on pure impulse, destroys her father's true love with her intrigues. Because of her machinations, her father's beloved also dies.
