The film tells about the obligations of the third, decisive year of the five-year plan, which are taken by all labor collectives of the country. Production leaders talk about their commitments: the foreman of the Krasny Bogatyr plant Agafonova, the head of the department of the All-Union Electrotechnical Institute named after Lenin Kozhukhov, the foreman of builders from Zelenograd N. Zlobin, the machine operator of one of the enterprises of the Krasnodar Territory Pervitsky, the foreman of the Moscow Region plant of electrical vacuum devices (synchronously). Meeting of workers and employees of the Kirov plant; tractor assembly conveyor; production processes for the manufacture of rubber footwear in one of the workshops of the Krasny Bogatyr plant; high voltage insulators in the laboratory of the All-Union Electrotechnical Institute; steelworkers at work in the foundry of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works; oil rigs in the Tyumen region; work of drillers; installation of oil pipeline pipes on the section of the Samotlor-Tyumen highway; construction of the Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric power station; the building and the machine room of one of the thermal power plants; power lines; the work of bricklayers on the construction of a residential building in Leningrad; the signing of commitments on socialist competition for machine operators in the Krasnoyarsk Territory; tractors work in the field during spring sowing; spinning shop workers; miners at work; coal on the conveyor.