The film is based on the early autobiographical stories of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. A bright, emotionally rich movie about the childhood of a boy from a distant Altai village, about his family — his sister and mother, about work, holidays, joys and troubles of ordinary Russian peasants during the Great Patriotic War...

Фильм рассказывает о детстве мальчика из далекого алтайского села, о его сестре и матери, об их трудной жизни в лихолетье Великой Отечественной войны.