Based on a story by Mikhail Sholokhov. The first postwar spring. Don river overflowed. An ex-soldier, Andrei Sokolov approached the ferry with a boy. He met a good man, got into a conversation with him and decided to tell him the story of his difficult life. He was born in Voronezh. During the Civil War was in the Red Army. In a hungry year of 1921 he went to work in Kuban. A year later he returned to Voronezh and worked in the carpentry cooperative. He met a good girl, fell in love with her an...