The film tells about the life of border villages: Ukrainian - Melovoe and Russian - Chertkovo, about the population of these villages, which turned out to be separated by the border, but related to each other by family ties, work, education of children, as well as a long cohabitation in the same village, which existed in the former Soviet Union. Types of villages, everyday life of the rural population, trade in the bazaar, a football match at the stadium, a wedding celebration, interviews with guests at a wedding (synchronously), the work of a customs post on the border of Russia and Ukraine, students of one of the schools at a Ukrainian language lesson, an interview with the director of a meat-packing plant in Chertkovo , view of the railway station.