Private Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.

1944 Sergeant Vasily Kalina returns to his native village of Pastoron after the hospital. But he does not find the village: retreating, the Germans burned all the houses and mined the fields. The restoration of the economy is led by the former commander of the partisan detachment Grigory Gorovoy. He appoints Vasily as the chairman of the collective farm. Soon Kalina learns that Claudia, whom he loved before the war, considering him dead, married Gorovoy. The current situation is not an easy test for all three...

Two brothers grew up in different places: one in the village, with his mother, the other in the city, with an aunt. The first is independent, hardworking, reliable, while the other is spoiled, on his own mind. The brothers met and realized that if they want to remain family people, they need to learn to understand and take care of each other anew.

Like all teenagers during the Great Patriotic war, Vasya was eager to go to the front. He enters diving school, but upon graduation, the guy is sent to help clear the lake of driftwood. Vasya, who dreams of the front, finds it difficult to get used to the “rear prose”...

An inconspicuous, modest accountant, Sulin often finds himself in half-funny, half-sad situations - he is often timid, afraid to cross at least someone. Until one day an incident helped him remember that he, too, was once decisive and brave.

The war caught Pavlik and his mother far from Leningrad, where they lived. Soon they found themselves in the territory occupied by the Nazis. When his mother was arrested on the traitor's denunciation, Pavlik went on foot to Leningrad. The partisan scout Savely brought the boy to his house, and two winters later Pavel, having matured, became a soldier and returned to Leningrad with a partisan supply train.