Elderly people in the reading room, in the workshop at the sewing machines, in the dining room of the Odessa boarding house. Visiting nurses leave the clinic. A sister gives medicines to patients, puts banks, buys medicines in pharmacies. Representatives of the primary organization of the Red Cross at a meeting in one of the housing maintenance offices. An employee of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Red Cross looks through the questionnaires filled out by elderly people in need of help. Schoolchildren of school No. 53 of the Kiev district of Odessa in the classroom of a medical and sanitary circle.