The 1st plot tells about the teacher of the Penza secondary school Davydkina Nina Yurievna. Penza city, 1988. Fine arts lesson in secondary school No. 59: children draw, cut out of paper with teacher N.Yu.Davydkina; visit the House-Museum of Folk Art. View of the building of the House-Museum of Folk Art on Kuibyshev Street, founded in 1975 and located in the building of the estate of the Penza timber merchant S.L. Tyurin. The second plot tells about a resident of the Ulyanovsk region Ilgiz Naumetov. Settlement Timiryazevsky, Ulyanovsk region, 1987. The driver Ilgiz Naumetov, who served in Afghanistan, walks along a birch grove; wipes the glass of a GAZ car, talks to a fellow villager; communicates with his wife and daughter at home, looks at photographs of military service with students of a rural school, drives a car. The third plot tells about a group of "walruses" from the city of Orenburg. City of Orenburg, 1988. People in the park of culture and recreation named after Chkalov ride on slides, merry-go-rounds. A group of "walruses": a teacher of one of the secondary schools R.M. Merzabekov, an agrochemist E.F. Murzin, an employee of Gosstrakh N.I. Mazurova and her daughter bathe in an ice-hole ... The organizer of the health group Vyacheslav Kochetov shows gymnastic exercises to the group members. Men are engaged in the gym.