Based on the story by Emmanuil Kazakevich "In the light of day". A year after the end of the Great Patriotic War, the soldier Sleptsov appears in the Moscow apartment of Olga Nechaeva, who went through the war side by side with her husband. His stories about the deceased Vitaly Nechaev, a fearless and noble hero, bewilder Olga: after all, her modest husband was not remembered like that at all ...