Terenti leaves the kolhoze and goes to Kiev to study agronomy. Marina, his wife, works a lot and looks forward to the return of her husband. Back home Terenti blames his wife for her lack of education, files for a divorce and goes back to town. Marina, left alone with her daughter, devotes herself entirely to her work and her studies. She soon received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Terenti then tries, but without success, to get closer to her ...