A former boxing champion returns to his native town and takes to drink, but finds the strength to stop: he marries and gets a job at a factory. During perestroika he joins the democratic movement. The authorities declare him a rapist.

Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers” of zoological rarities (junior children, a scientist from America, an academic zoologist) burst into his usual, measured life, because it turns out that Glazyuk’s animal lives in the Ugryumovsky Nature Reserve...

While detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps), Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order to save her baby, she was manipulated into a situation where she had to betray her lover. The main attraction of this film is the clear depiction it gives of the harsh conditions of life in these infamous camps.