In love with an older girl Natasha (Roza Makagonova), young Slavka drops out of school and dreams of working as an excavator operator at the construction of a new village, like her, but gets a job as a car mechanic in a garage at this construction site. Having fallen under the influence of drinking "mentors", he tries to leave home and start working in a new place. But real friends Natasha and Alexey (Valerian Vinogradov) help him return to school, rethink his past mistakes, start a healthy life and find his place in it.