Zakhar Stoletov, who after political rehabilitation becomes the chairman of a backward collective farm faces many problems. Among the hardest problems is his conflict with a young agronomist Svetlana Nikitina and the accidental meeting with the regional party worker Dedyukhin who slandered Stoletov in 1937...
Dramatic situation is further aggravated by the fact that Svetlana turns out to be Stoletov’s daughter — many years ago her mother, Lyudmila Sergeyevna, renounced her repressed husband... Source : www.lenfilm.ru