Plot Summary
The film opens at a Moscow airport in summer 1963. A young man, Volodya (Alexei Loktev), calls out to a young woman he sees singing to herself and dancing.
- – Arriving or departing?
- – Waiting for arrivals.
- – Who is it?
- – My husband.
- – He's lucky to have someone to meet him.
- – Get married, you'll have someone as well.
- – And you are both happy?
- – Yes, we are.
- – It never happens.
- – Believe me, it happens.
Volodya is an aspiring writer from Siberia. His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost ("Youth"), and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Moscow to discuss his work. In the Moscow Metro Volodya unexpectedly makes a friend, Kolya (Nikita Mikhalkov), who is returning home after a hard night shift. Volodya wants to stay at his old friends' home, but he doesn't know where the necessary street is so Kolya decided to help him to find it.
Unfortunately, a dog bites Volodya near Clean Ponds. Then Kolya decided to help his new friend again - they both came to Kolya's home where Kolya sews Volodya's trousers and introduces him to Kolya's large family. Volodya recognised that his old Moscow friends aren't in Moscow (they left for south) and Volodya stays at Kolya's. Then Volodya goes for a walk.
At last alone, Kolya decided to sleep, but then came his old friend Sasha (Evgeny Steblov). Sasha is in trouble - he was planning on marrying his fiancée Sveta today, but he has been called up for military service. He begs Kolya to help him. Kolya helps. Then two young men go to the Main Department Store to buy a suit for a bridegroom and they meet Volodya there (Volody has recently bought a new suit for himself). Then friends decided to buy a present for a bride and they go to the music shop, because the saleswoman, Alyona (Galina Polskikh) is an old friend of Kolya...
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