After graduating from school and failing in exams at the medical institute, and then at the theater school, Elvira (Mikaela Drozdovskaya), at the insistence of her mother, is hired as a nurse to the sick mother of her neighbor Sergei Sergeevich, an assistant professor at the archaeological institute. The planned disposition of the institute employee turned into a sincere friendship. Elvira got a job in a hospital and began seriously preparing for a medical institute. And when Sergei Sergeevich went on a long expedition to Central Asia, she wrote letters to him and knew that, counting the days, he was waiting for her arrival.