For Vera, a student of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, first love instead of joy and happiness brings disappointment, and it was enough to have one first deception, and before a self-confident girl changes, becomes suspicious and closed. She no longer believes in anyone and runs away from people, having left the institute, Vera and her small daughter leave for a remote village where no one knows her. Soon she has a thin and responsive friend, a teacher at a neighboring school, Aleksei Nikolaevich...