The plot tells about various events of 1986. Celebrating the New Year in Japan: carnival procession on the streets of one of the cities; exhibition of snow sculptures. Antiwar demonstration in England. Prime Minister W. Palme is on the square. Grave of W. Palme. Explosion of the US spacecraft "Challenger". Police detain demonstrators on the street of one of the cities in the world. Meeting of members of the Ku Klux Klan organization in the United States. Statue of Liberty in New York. Wounded and killed on the ground in Libya. US President R. Reagan speaks to the audience; talks with General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Reykjavik. Mikhail Gorbachev speaks at a meeting of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU. Schoolgirl K. Lycheva talks with children in the United States. Passers-by on the streets of one of the cities in the world.