New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama.

English: The heroine of the film, Lyudmila Nikolskaya (in real life, Makievskaya), a noblewoman by birth who graduated from the Smolny Institute, was with those who stormed the Winter Palace. A participant in the armed uprising in Yekaterinoslav, commander and commissar of an armored train, she died in a combat operation to capture the fortified headquarters of the enemy...

The conflict between the young school teacher Studentsov and the head teacher Lukyanova divided the residents of the village of Zhukovka into two parts. The eighth graders supported their teacher, who was genuinely worried not so much about the fate of each pupil as for the future of the hopeless village.