On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married.
The trial of the collective farm chairman Sagdaev, who deviated from some outdated rules of law in order to develop collective farm production.
