Yury Avdeev

Two young friends are looking for adventures and women during New Year night.

After the death of his wife, Pyotr Maksimovich Zverev’s life didn't develop very happily: relations with a woman whom he loved were difficult to develop, and it was also not easy with adult children. And therefore, he did not expect anything special and joyful from the coming day of his birthday...

The film tells about the complex relationship between two chemical scientists. Viktor Sviridov arrived from the province, where he works as an engineer at one of the factories, at the metropolitan institute in order to defend his project related to an urgent scientific problem. However, without the support of a longtime friend Alexei Grekov, he has no chance: most members of the academic council are opposed to his project and himself. But Grekov is also forced to choose between his wife's scientific career and obligations to another.

Fate has repeatedly deceived Katya Nikanorova — however, she is still destined to wait for a meeting with her happiness. However, far from immediately she was able to discern her prince in the closed, sometimes ridiculous and ridiculous, nondescript veterinarian Dyozhkin. And he saw a kind and sensitive woman in the keen and stormy Katerina. But before this happens, the heroes of the melodrama will survive many curious situations...

Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.

A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.