The movie includes the following plots: 1-st plot "Experiment in Malyshevka" about an economic experiment on the state farm of the Kuibyshev region. The plot uses the following filming: combine "Niva" on one of the fields of the state farm "Malyshevsky". State farm director Alexander Stepanovich Starostin talks about an economic experiment: about new methods of organizing labor in the fields and farms, about the transition to self-sufficiency (sync., Behind the scenes); talks with machine operators in the field; driving a GAZ car; view of a sunflower field at the farm. The second plot "Machine-tool builders" tells about the activities of the Volga Automobile Plant in the city of Togliatti. The plot uses the following filming: a view of the shops and workers of Volzhsky AvtoVAZ; Zhiguli cars on the main assembly line of the plant; type of machine tools with numerical control; technical director Marat Nagumanovich Farshatov in one of the workshops of the plant talks about the need to modernize equipment for mechanical engineering (sync.); worker at the front-end automatic lathe Aftok-25.