The special issue of the film tells about an economic experiment carried out at the Volzhsky Automobile Plant. The city of Togliatti. View of a street and multi-storey buildings in the city of Togliatti. Cars VAZ - 2108 on a conveyor in the workshop of the Volzhsky Automobile Plant. The secretary of the VAZ party committee, Yuri Georgievich Karnaukhov, talks about the technical and operational capabilities of the VAZ - 2108 car (sync.). Technical Director Marat Nugumanovich Farshatov at the assembly-testing site of manipulators talks about the new equipment used in mechanical engineering (sync.). Type of work of the foundry and design bureau. The director of the body-assembly production Nikolai Vasilyevich Lyachenkov speaks about the economic independence of the plant managers (sinhr.). Production meeting of foremen in the machine-tool shop on the prospects of AvtoVAZ. One of the foremen reports on the systematic departure of qualified specialists from the machine-tool shop (sync.). The party organizer talks about the need to raise the consciousness of the workers (sync.). Economic Director Petr Makarovich Katsura talks about an economic experiment: about special requirements for the quality of the plant's products, its competitiveness, about improving the technical level of production and qualifications of workers (sync.).