The film tells about the introduction of a brigade contract on the example of a brigade of machine operators Viktor Mikhailovich Kosmynin. Part 1 Moscow, December 25, 1980. Meeting of the All-Russian Council of Collective Farms at the Ministry of Agriculture. Minister of Agriculture of the RSFSR Leonid Yakovlevich Florentyev opens the meeting. The chairman of the collective farm named after the Comintern of the Ryazan region, Sergey Vasilyevich Bakulin, makes a speech, speaks about the brigade contract of the collective farmer Viktor Mikhailovich Kosmynin, introduced by the scientific leader, candidate of economic sciences Mikhail Efimovich Klyuev. Ryazan region, Saraevsky district, collective farm named after the Comintern, 1981. View of the new brick houses of collective farmers. Photos of machine operators of the brigade contract V.M. Kosmynin. Viktor Mikhailovich Kosmynin talks about the personal responsibility of each employee of the brigade contract (sync.). Sowing work in the field. The meeting of collective farmers after the end of the field harvest, chaired by S.V. Bakulin. (271.9 m). 2 part Ryazan region, Saraevsky district, collective farm named after Komintern, 1981. Harvest. Plowing the land for the future harvest. Collection of collective farmers. Kolkhoz chairman S.V. Bakulin speaks of the need to pay attention to the supply of equipment, repair of equipment (sync., Behind the scenes). Meeting of the district party committee with the participation of collective farm chairmen, secretaries of party organizations, economists. The chairman of the collective farm named after the Comintern, Sergei Vasilyevich Bakulin, speaks about the advantages of the brigade organization of labor (sinhr.). (280.5 m).