The film tells about the working days and holidays of the non-black-earth collective farm-millionaire "Red Mayak" (Gorodetsky district of the Gorky region), about its chairman, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ivan Porfirievich Zhelezov, who has been working all his life for the good of his compatriots, and about collective farm workers, among whom is a deserved zootechnician Lidia Polikarpovna Chesnokova.