The hero of this film is Academician Lounine, director of the Computer Research Institute. He is working on the application of the Unity project to companies under the same management. According to his calculations, this global computerized network should significantly reduce the number of intermediate bodies and, consequently, the delay in decision-making. But Lounin has adversaries. Despite his worsening state of health, he goes to a Novgorod tractor factory to find out the real reasons for the delays, and therefore, the reason for the concealment of data. Knowing that he only has 6 months left to live, Lounine refuses to be operated on and does everything possible to save his project.