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After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.

Based on the story of the same name by Ivan Kataev.

Probably, half of his native village was married off by Grandfather Stepan, because he was always eager to do good for others. Even a serious illness couldn’t stop him from doing so. After returning from the hospital to his native village, he once again finds himself in the midst of the complex relationships of the people around him. And once again, he has to play the role of matchmaker. But this time, all of Grandfather Stepan’s energy is directed at helping… a goose and a gander to be together.

Freight forwarder Nadia is about to get married. The product sales plan is going to hell. Nadezhda is allocated a young driver, Ivan, and in the two days that they travel by truck, they have an affair. Who will Nadezhda marry?

A group of Soviet soldiers stops in a forest near Prague during a break between battles. An elderly soldier named Sherstobitov, who was assigned to go to the unit's headquarters to get mail, meets a Czech girl named Eva. On the way to the unit's location, the soldier would throw away his bicycle, lie down under a tree and sing Czech songs he had recently heard, and the girl would come to listen to them every day. Before leaving for battle again, Sherstobitov gives Eva a piano as a parting gift, which he found in an abandoned house on a nearby farmstead.

The film is built as if out of nothing, actually growing out of that "web" of human relations on which the world rests. The motive of separation from the roots is present in the film, as well as the motive of restoring the way of life, returning vitality. Yuri Shiller's handwriting is special, it is recognizable in the rhythms of intra—frame editing, in branded driveways and panoramas, where, as it were, disorganized life acquires an unflattering depth, and the finiteness of the time allotted to a person, the nature surrounding him, and the world at home in general becomes physically palpable.