Wounded Captain Nikolai Mityasov returns to his destroyed city and learns that his wife, Shura, has cheated on him. His best friend, fighter pilot Sergei Eroshin, who has lost a leg, is involved in the black market. Hope has given way to bitterness and dismay. But peace is concluded, demobilization begins, the country must be rebuilt. Nicolai meets Valia, enrolls in the building institute and begins a new, happy life without war...
